By Ryan Young
Jan 27, 2021 6:36 PM
Public health officials advise four additional deaths in people with COVID-19 have been reported today including:
• a female in her 70s from the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region;
• a male in his 70s from the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region;
• a female in her 70s from the Winnipeg health region; and
• a male in his 90s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to the outbreak at Concordia Place Personal Care Home.
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 9.6 per cent provincially and 6.1 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30 a.m. today, 95 new cases of the virus have been identified, However, one case has been removed due to data correction and brings to net-new case total to 94. The number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 28,996.