Brandon Sun By: Michele LeTourneau, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Posted:
Dr. Marcia Anderson, public health lead for First Nation Pandemic Response Co-ordination Team, speaks during the First Nations COVID-19 immunization update media conference held at the Manitoba Legislative Building on Wednesday afternoon. (Winnipeg Free Press)
People 95 and older, as well as First Nations people 75 and older, are now eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
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People 95 and older, as well as First Nations people 75 and older, are now eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. I’m personally very excited to be announcing that we’re expanding into general population, and I’m looking forward to decrease the age of eligibility continually over time, said Dr. Joss Reimer at Wednesday’s news conference.
Manitoba novel coronavirus bulletin – 354
Corwyn Friesen, mySteinbach
Posted on 02/24/2021 at 12:46 pm
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 4.6 per cent provincially and four per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30am on February 24, 2021, 45 new cases of the virus have been identified. However, six cases have been removed due to data corrections. This brings the net-new number of cases today to 39 and the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 31,590.
Public health officials advise one additional death in a person with COVID-19 have been reported today:
a female in her 90s from the Winnipeg health region linked to the outbreak at Oakview Place Personal Care Home.
Provincial health officials announced the lowest number of new COVID-19 cases in the Northern Health Region (NHR) that the region has seen in weeks. The district last reported a number that low when 10 new cases were found Feb. 7, the lowest number seen since Jan. 3, where only three new cases were reported throughout the north. The NHR currently has 577 active cases of COVID-19, down from 586 reported Tuesday. Most of the new cases were reported in the current hardest-hit district in the NHR, the Cross Lake-Pimicikamak district. Canadian Armed Forces personnel landed in Cross Lake Feb. 23 to assist in shutting down the outbreak, which has led to a full lockdown throughout Cross Lake and Pimicikamak Cree Nation. There are now 221 active cases throughout the district.