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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Corwyn Friesen, mySteinbach
Posted on 02/09/2021 at 12:38 pm
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 5.4 per cent provincially and 4.3 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30am on February 9, 2021, 75 new cases of the virus have been identified. However, four cases have been removed due to a data correction. This brings the net-new number of cases today to 71 and the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 30,360.
Public health officials advise three additional deaths in people with COVID-19 have been reported today including:
a male in his 60s from the Prairie Mountain Health region,
a female in her 60s from the Winnipeg health region, and
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Winnipeg s five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 4.3 per cent.
Public health officials advise three additional deaths in people with COVID-19 have been reported today including:
• a male in his 60s from the Prairie Mountain Health region,
• a female in her 60s from the Winnipeg health region, and
• a female in her 70s from the Winnipeg health region.
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 5.4 per cent provincially and 4.3 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30 a.m. today, 75 new cases of the virus have been identified. However, four cases have been removed due to a data correction. This brings the net-new number of cases today to 71 and the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 30,360.
Manitoba is reporting 75 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, as the province's chief public health officer announced the arrival of the coronavirus variant first seen in the U.K.