COVID-19 cases at Hudbay’s Flin Flon and Snow Lake operations have climbed over the past week. As of Monday, 16 of the company’s employees have tested positive for the disease.
By Matthew Dekker
Apr 20, 2021 11:32 AM
Public health officials advise that one new death in a person with COVID -19 have been reported today:
• a female in her 90s from Prairie Mountain Health region, linked to the outbreak at Russell Health Centre.
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is six per cent provincially and 6.3 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30 a.m. today, 211 new cases of the virus have been identified. However, eight cases have been removed due to data correction. This brings the net-new number of cases today to 203 and the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 36,470.
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Cases are continuing to rise in Manitoba s capital city.
The provincial government is announcing a total of 211 new COVID-19 cases, most of which are from Winnipeg.
Today s new cases include:
• 14 cases in the Interlake-Eastern health region
• 25 cases in the Northern health region
• 27 cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region
• seven cases in the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region
• 138 cases in the Winnipeg health region
A woman in her 90s with the virus linked to an outbreak at Russell Health Centre in the Prairie Mountain Health region has died, bringing the total number of deaths in Manitoba to 960, amounting to over 2.6 per cent of all recorded cases in the province.
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The Northern Health Region (NHR) had confirmed to The Reminder that a staff member at the Flin Flon Personal Care Home had tested positive for COVID-19 and that the staff member in question was recovering at home in isolation. No other cases, either in residents or staff, have been reported at the home. The outbreak at the Personal Care Home was first announced April 16. According to an NHR spokesperson, the change is due to the Manitoba government changing the definition of what does and what doesn’t count as an outbreak at a personal care home. “There was a change in the definition of a personal care home outbreak - it was revised from one positive COVID-19 case to two positive COVID-19 cases. As there was only one identified case at the Flin Flon Personal Care Home, the outbreak was declared over,” reads a statement from the spokesperson.