2020 novel coronavirus bulletin – 290
Corwyn Friesen, mySteinbach
Posted on 12/19/2020 at 12:42 pm
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 13.2 per cent provincially and 12 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30am on December 19, 2020, 238 new cases of the virus have been identified, which brings the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 22,630.
Public health officials advise nine additional deaths in people with COVID-19 have been reported today, including:
a female in her 70s from the Interlake-Eastern health region;
a female in her 60s from the Northern health region;
a female in her 70s from the Southern Health-Santé Sud region, linked to an outbreak at Morris General Hospital;