These deaths bring the total related to the pandemic in Manitoba to 590.
December has seen more deaths than any other month since the start of the pandemic.(Cameron MacLean/CBC)
Almost 1,200 health workers vaccinated
Manitoba is continuing its rollout of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, with a total 1,192 front-line health workers having received the vaccine so far.
Although provincial public health officials said last week that the province would be able to find people to receive the vaccine in the event that there were unused doses available, a handful of doses seven in total have been wasted since the vaccine program launched, said Atwal.
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COVID-19 outbreaks at several facilities are being declared over.
There are 155 new cases of COVID-19 being announced to the public Tuesday and 18 more COVID-19 deaths.
The Manitobans lost to COVID-19 being announced include:
a female in her 80s from the Interlake–Eastern health region, linked to an outbreak at Kin Place in Oakbank;
a female in her 80s from the Prairie Mountain Health region, linked to an outbreak at Fairview Home in Brandon;
a female in her 90s from the Prairie Mountain Health region, linked to an outbreak at the Grandview Personal Care Home in Grandview;
2020 novel coronavirus bulletin – 293
Corwyn Friesen, mySteinbach
Posted on 12/22/2020 at 12:53 pm
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 11.5 per cent provincially and 10.5 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30am on December 12, 2020, 155 new cases of the virus have been identified, which brings the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 23,180.
Public health officials advise 18 additional deaths in people with COVID-19 have been reported today including:
a female in her 80s from the Interlake-Eastern health region, linked to an outbreak at Kin Place in Oakbank;
a female in her 80s from the Prairie Mountain Health region, linked to an outbreak at Fairview Home in Brandon;