Manitoba novel coronavirus bulletin – 397
Corwyn Friesen, mySteinbach
Posted on 04/10/2021 at 12:37 pm
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 5.7 per cent provincially and 5.2 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30am on April 10, 2021, 135 new cases of the virus have been identified. This brings the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 35,104.
Public health officials advise that one additional death in a person with COVID-19 is being reported today:
a female in her 80s from the Winnipeg health region;
Today’s COVID-19 data shows:
four cases in the Interlake-Eastern health region;
33 cases in the Northern health region;
nine cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region;
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Thirty-six additional variants of concern have been detected in Manitoba as the province another grim milestone, public health officials announced Saturday. The new cases are 32 of the B.1.1.7 UK variant and four which have not been categorized.
That brings the number of variant cases to 412, including 364 of the UK variant, 20 of the South Africa variant and 28 cases that had not been categorized. It marked the first time that the number of variant cases had exceeded 400.
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Manitoba is tightening its borders and ordering all travellers to self-isolate for two weeks, over concerns they may bring new, and more transmissible, coronavirus variants across provincial lines.
Manitoba is tightening its borders and ordering all travellers to self-isolate for two weeks, over concerns they may bring new, and more transmissible, coronavirus variants across provincial lines.
At a hastily called news conference Tuesday, Premier Brian Pallister announced changes to public health orders that require anyone who enters Manitoba to self-isolate for 14 days. The move will take effect Friday.
It will include travellers from Western Canada, the northern territories and west of Terrace Bay, Ont. who are not required to self-isolate under current health orders.
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For the second time this month, new cases of COVID-19 identified dipped below 100, public health officials reported on Tuesday.
There were 94 new cases identified in Tuesday’s bulletin, two more than the 92 that were announced on Jan. 12. Prior to that, there hadn’t been a double-digit new case count for a single day since the middle of October.
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Of the new cases, 41 were found in Winnipeg while the hard-hit Northern Health region had an additional 36 new infections. Fifteen more cases were found in the Prairie Mountain Health region and two in Southern Health. Interlake-Eastern, meanwhile, recorded a shutout with zero new cases.