2020 novel coronavirus bulletin – 295
Corwyn Friesen, mySteinbach
Posted on 12/24/2020 at 12:34 pm
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 10.6 per cent provincially and 10.6 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30am on December 24, 2020, 244 new cases of the virus have been identified, which brings the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 23,624.
Public health officials advise 12 additional deaths in people with COVID-19 have been reported today, including:
a female in her 30s from the Southern Health-Santé Sud region;
a female in her 80s from the Southern Health-Santé Sud region;
a male in his 80s from the Northern health region;
a female in her 50s from the Winnipeg health region;
WINNIPEG A COVID-19 outbreak has been declared at a unit in the St. Boniface hospital, along with another personal care home and long-term care facility. On Thursday the province reported an outbreak on the E5 Medicine Unit at the St. Boniface Hospital. It is one of 17 outbreaks currently ongoing in Manitoba health-care facilities. The province also reported outbreaks at the Calvary Place personal care home and Deer Lodge Centre in Winnipeg. All three sites have been moved to the red or critical level on the province s pandemic response system. A number of outbreaks ended on Thursday as well. The outbreaks at Bridgepark Manor, an assisted living facility in Steinbach, Buhler Active Living Centre in Winkler, and Grace Hospital units 2 South and 3 North in Winnipeg, were all declared over.