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Another 164 cases of COVID-19 and one additional death were reported by public health in Manitoba as test positivity rates continued to rise on Wednesday across the province.
While cases dropped below 200, after hitting 211 on Tuesday — the most since early January — the provincial test positivity rate climbed to 6.3%, up 0.3% compared to Tuesday and up a full percentage point since Saturday.
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In Winnipeg, the test positive rate rose to 6.6%, up 1.3% in the same time frame. The province carried out 2,785 tests on Tuesday, bringing the total number of lab tests completed since early February 2020 to 630,143.