For-profit care homes have higher COVID-19 death rates among Winnipeg nursing homes
Manitobans died from COVID-19 outbreaks in for-profit personal care homes at a rate higher than in those run by the province or not-for-profit organizations, a CBC News analysis revealed.
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For the first time since last October, the province has recorded consecutive days with fewer than 100 new cases of COVID-19.
Public health officials announced 95 new cases of the virus in Manitoba on Wednesday. There were 94 new infections on Tuesday. It’s the first time since Oct. 18-19 that the province has stayed under the century mark for new cases.
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Of the 95 cases, 87 come from Winnipeg (44) and Northern Health (43). Three new cases were found in the Prairie Mountain Health region and three in Southern Health. Interlake-Eastern, which posted a shutout on Tuesday, had an additional two new cases on Wednesday.
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Corwyn Friesen, mySteinbach
Posted on 01/28/2021 at 2:12 pm
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 8.7 per cent provincially and 5.4 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30am on January 28, 2021, 133 new cases of the virus have been identified. However, one case has been removed due to a data correction. This brings the net-new number of cases today to 132 and the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 29,128.
Public health officials advise eight additional deaths in people with COVID-19 have been reported today including:
a female in her 80s from the Interlake–Eastern health region, linked to the outbreak at the Beausejour Hospital;
WINNIPEG Manitoba added eight new COVID-19 deaths on Thursday, and the death toll now sits at 821. Six of the deaths are from the Winnipeg area and all of them are women. One was in her 60s, another was in her 70s and linked to the outbreak at Southeast Personal Care Home. Four were in their 90s, one from the St. Norbert Personal Care Home outbreak, two from the Charleswood Care Centre outbreak, and the last was connected to the outbreak at the Convalescent Home of Winnipeg. The other two deaths were women in their 80s, one from the Interlake-Eastern Health Region from the Beausejour Hospital outbreak, and the other is from the Southern Health Region and connected to the outbreak at the Heritage Life Personal Care Home.