2020 novel coronavirus bulletin – 340
Corwyn Friesen, mySteinbach
Posted on 02/09/2021 at 12:38 pm
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 5.4 per cent provincially and 4.3 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30am on February 9, 2021, 75 new cases of the virus have been identified. However, four cases have been removed due to a data correction. This brings the net-new number of cases today to 71 and the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 30,360.
Public health officials advise three additional deaths in people with COVID-19 have been reported today including:
a male in his 60s from the Prairie Mountain Health region,
a female in her 60s from the Winnipeg health region, and
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Winnipeg s five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 4.3 per cent.
Public health officials advise three additional deaths in people with COVID-19 have been reported today including:
• a male in his 60s from the Prairie Mountain Health region,
• a female in her 60s from the Winnipeg health region, and
• a female in her 70s from the Winnipeg health region.
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 5.4 per cent provincially and 4.3 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30 a.m. today, 75 new cases of the virus have been identified. However, four cases have been removed due to a data correction. This brings the net-new number of cases today to 71 and the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 30,360.
Manitoba is reporting 75 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, as the province's chief public health officer announced the arrival of the coronavirus variant first seen in the U.K.
Care home says COVID-19 deaths higher than province reported
It was another dark day in Manitoba with 18 lives reported lost to COVID-19.
While the province reported Tuesday that seven of those deaths were connected to an outbreak at Winnipeg s Extendicare Oakview Place, the company that owns the personal care home said the death toll there is much higher. We are saddened to confirm that 12 residents who have previously tested positive for COVID-19 have passed away, Laura Gallant, a spokeswoman for Extendicare said late Tuesday. We have been in touch with these residents’ families to offer our heartfelt condolences, she said in an email to the
WINNIPEG The number of daily COVID-19 cases continues to drop in Manitoba, but COVID-19 deaths have spiked again. While there was no public COVID-19 briefing on Tuesday, the province announced in a news release that 18 more Manitobans had died due to COVID-19, a spike over the four deaths reported on Monday. The majority of these most recent deaths have been linked to outbreaks at personal care homes and health-care facilities across the province, including seven deaths that have been linked to an outbreak at the Oakview Place personal care home in Winnipeg. More information about these Manitobans can be found at the bottom of this article.