By Ryan Young
Jan 7, 2021 6:36 PM
Public health officials advise 12 additional deaths in people with COVID-19 have been reported today including:
• a male in his 30s from Northern health region;
• a male in his 60s from Prairie Mountain Health;
• a female in her 90s from Prairie Mountain Health, linked to the outbreak at Fairview Personal Care Home;
• a female in her 60s from the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region;
• a female in her 50s from the Winnipeg health region;
• a female in her 60s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to the Convalescent Home of Winnipeg;
• a female in her 70s from the Winnipeg health region;
WINNIPEG Health officials in Manitoba announced 12 new deaths related to COVID-19 on Thursday, bringing the death toll to 717. The youngest death on the day was a man in his 30s from the Northern Health Region. Two deaths came from the Prairie Mountain Health Region, including a man in his 60s and a woman in her 90s from the Fairview Personal Care Home outbreak. There was one death from the Southern Health Region, a woman in her 60s. The other eight deaths are from the Winnipeg area including: A woman in her 50s; A woman in her 60s linked to the outbreak at Convalescent Home of Winnipeg;
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Corwyn Friesen, mySteinbach
Posted on 01/07/2021 at 12:39 pm
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 9.9 per cent provincially and 10.5 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30am on January 7, 2021, 208 new cases of the virus have been identified. However, seven were removed due to data corrections making the net new total 201. This brings the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 25,742.
Public health officials advise 12 additional deaths in people with COVID-19 have been reported today including:
a male in his 30s from Northern health region;
a male in his 60s from Prairie Mountain Health;
a female in her 90s from Prairie Mountain Health, linked to the outbreak at Fairview Personal Care Home;
Brandon Sun Posted:
Hillcrest Place will be one of the first seven personal care homes in the province to have its residents given COVID-19 vaccines.
Residents at Hillcrest Place Personal Care Home are among those getting vaccinated in the first wave of personal care home vaccinations starting next Monday.
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Residents at Hillcrest Place Personal Care Home are among those getting vaccinated in the first wave of personal care home vaccinations starting next Monday.
Premier Brian Pallister said in a release that all personal care home residents at 135 sites in the province will be vaccinated in a 28-day campaign. By early March, every eligible resident will have received both doses and the fullest protection we can provide against this virus, he said.
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Manitoba plans to immunize nearly 10,000 personal care home residents over a four-week span beginning Jan. 11, the province announced on Wednesday.
The 28-day campaign, outlined by Premier Brian Pallister during a news conference, will immunize an estimated 9,834 eligible residents at 135 homes, with the first 1,157 people getting their first doses starting next week at seven locations across the province.
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Pallister said by early March, every eligible resident will have received both doses of the vaccine. Immunizations are expected to use the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines.