The Northern Health Region (NHR) had confirmed to The Reminder that a staff member at the Flin Flon Personal Care Home had tested positive for COVID-19 and that the staff member in question was recovering at home in isolation. No other cases, either in residents or staff, have been reported at the home. The outbreak at the Personal Care Home was first announced April 16. According to an NHR spokesperson, the change is due to the Manitoba government changing the definition of what does and what doesn’t count as an outbreak at a personal care home. “There was a change in the definition of a personal care home outbreak - it was revised from one positive COVID-19 case to two positive COVID-19 cases. As there was only one identified case at the Flin Flon Personal Care Home, the outbreak was declared over,” reads a statement from the spokesperson.
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The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 4.9 per cent provincially and 3.9 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30am on February 11, 2021, 90 new cases of the virus have been identified. The total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 30,507.