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The province says there are 164 new cases of COVID-19 in Manitoba.
The latest person with COVID-19 to die is a man in his 50s from the Northern Health region.
New cases Wednesday include:
• 30 cases in the Northern health region
• 19 cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region
• 24 cases in the Southern Health-Santé Sud health region
• 76 cases in the Winnipeg health region
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 6.3 per cent provincially and 6.6 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30 a.m. today, 164 new cases of the virus have been identified. However, two cases have been removed due to data correction. This brings the net-new number of cases today to 162 and the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 36,632.
Manitoba novel coronavirus bulletin – 408
Corwyn Friesen, mySteinbach
Posted on 04/21/2021 at 12:39 pm
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 6.3 per cent provincially and 6.6 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30am on April 24, 2021, 164 new cases of the virus have been identified. However, two cases have been removed due to data correction. This brings the net-new number of cases today to 162 and the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 36,632.
Public health officials advise that one new death in a person with COVID -19 have been reported today:
a male in his 50s from Northern Health region.
Today’s COVID-19 data shows:
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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.
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– the total number of variant of concern cases is 412.
Laboratory testing numbers show 2,031 tests were completed yesterday, bringing the total number of lab tests completed since early February 2020 to 601,994.
Outbreaks have been declared at Donwood Manor in Winnipeg and Boyne Lodge Personal Care Home in Carman. The facilities have been moved to the Critical (red) level on the #RestartMB Pandemic Response System.
The outbreak is declared over at St. Michael’s Ukrainian Catholic Church in Sarto.
Additional data related to COVID-19, including data on outbreaks as well as some downloadable and historic data, can be found at https://geoportal.gov.mb.ca/.