WINNIPEG Manitoba has now marked 1,000 deaths linked to COVID-19 since March 2020. Three new deaths were reported on Wednesday, and include a woman in her 50s from the Prairie Mountain Health Region, a man in his 60s from Winnipeg, and a man in his 70s in the Interlake-Eastern Health Region. The woman in her 50s and man in his 60s were both linked to the B.1.1.7 variant while the man in his 70s was connected to an unspecified variant. So far, 27 deaths have been connected to a variant of concern. The case count in the province also stayed high with 364 new cases and the test positivity rate is 12.1 throughout Manitoba.
WINNIPEG Four more Manitobans have died from COVID-19, and the province has reported more than 350 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday for the first time since December. The deaths include a woman and man, both in their 50s in the Prairie Mountain Health Region, along with a man in his 60s and a woman in her 70s from Winnipeg. The death of the man in the Prairie Mountain Health Region is linked to the B.1.1.7 variant of concern, along with both deaths in Winnipeg. Manitoba has reported 16 deaths linked to variants of concern. The death toll from COVID-19 in Manitoba is 986.
WINNIPEG Manitoba health officials announced one new death related to COVID-19 on Friday. The death is linked to the B.1.1.7 variant and was a man in his 70s from the Winnipeg area. There have been 974 deaths in Manitoba linked to COVID. The province s new case count continued to stay high with 295 new cases announced. However, five previously announced cases were removed due to a data correction. Manitoba s case count has hit 38,729 since March 2020. The five-day test positivity rate is 7.2 per cent province-wide and 8.2 per cent in Winnipeg. Winnipeg continued to have the highest number of new cases with 187, followed by the Prairie Mountain Health Region at 50. The Southern Health Region had 29 cases, 17 cases came from the Northern Health Region and 12 cases were in the Interlake-Eastern Health Region.