The province announced 47 new cases of COVID-19 in the Northern Regional Health Authority (NRHA) Dec. 16 but health district numbers on the provincial government’s COVID-19 web page showed only 33 new cases, with another 23 cases removed from previous totals. The total number of COVID-19 cases in the north only went up by 10 from yesterday, data on the web page shows. Most of the new northern cases were from the Island Lake health district, which had 20 more cases than on Tuedsay, while there were seven new cases in the Thompson/Mystery Lake health district and five in the Shamattawa/Yokrk Factory/Tataskweyak/Split Lake health district.
The Reminder has reached out to the Northern Health Region (NHR) for more information on what the end of the outbreak will mean for the facility, but is yet to receive comment. Three outbreaks remain active in the north, according to the provincial government, including one in Flin Flon at the Northern Lights Manor. At least one staff member and two residents at the manor have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak was first announced. The two other outbreaks are both in The Pas/OCN/Kelsey district - the Rod McGillivary Care Home at Opaskwayak Cree Nation and the acute care inpatient unit at St. Anthony s Hospital in The Pas.
2020 novel coronavirus bulletin – 287
Corwyn Friesen, mySteinbach
Posted on 12/16/2020 at 12:38 pm
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 13.6 per cent provincially and 13.7 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30am on December 16, 2020, 292 new cases of the virus have been identified. However, one case was removed due to a data correction making the net total 291 and brings the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 21,826.
Public health officials advise 15 additional deaths in people with COVID-19 have been reported today including:
a male in his 40s from the Winnipeg health region;
a female in her 40s from the Interlake-Eastern health region, linked to outbreak at Kin Place;
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