No COVID-19 information was released on Sunday due to the holiday, so the 135 cases account for those reported on Sunday and Monday. Of the province s 135 cases reported, 63 were in the Winnipeg health region. This brings the city s five-day test positivity rate to 4.3 per cent. An outbreak at the River East Personal Care Home in Winnipeg was declared over on Monday. The outbreak was first declared at the home on Nov. 12, 2020. The other cases reported as of Monday include: three cases in the Interlake-Eastern health region; 43 cases in the Northern health region; 19 cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region; and seven cases in the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region.
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Public health officials advise no additional deaths in people with COVID-19 reported today.
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 4.4 per cent provincially and 3.4 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30 a.m. today, 96 new cases of the virus have been identified. However, three cases have been removed due to data correction. This brings the net-new number of cases today to 93 and the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 32,996.
Public health officials are announcing that 9 additional confirmed cases as a result of the B.1.1.7 COVID-19 variant of concern first identified in the United Kingdom have been detected. The cases identified today are all from the Winnipeg health region.
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Corwyn Friesen, mySteinbach
Posted on 03/17/2021 at 12:56 pm
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 4.4 per cent provincially and 3.4 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30am on March 17, 2021, 96 new cases of the virus have been identified. However, three cases have been removed due to data correction. This brings the net-new number of cases today to 93 and the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 32,996.
Public health officials advise no additional deaths in people with COVID-19 are being reported today.
Public health officials are announcing that nine additional confirmed cases as a result of the B.1.1.7 COVID-19 variant of concern first identified in the United Kingdom have been detected. The cases identified today are all from the Winnipeg health region.