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The Manitoba government has launched an online dashboard dedicated to COVID-19 cases in schools.
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The Manitoba government has launched an online dashboard dedicated to COVID-19 cases in schools.
It provides current information, including cases within the last 14 days and the total number since Sept. 1, 2020, the province said in a statement Thursday.
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The dashboard also includes cases where students or staff may not have been infectious while at school. A map allows the public to see individual school case counts for the last 14 days by location.
By Ryan Young
Feb 4, 2021 6:58 PM
Public health officials advise two additional deaths in people with COVID-19 have been reported today, including:
A male in his 70s from the Winnipeg health region; and
A female in her 90s from the Winnipeg health region and linked to the outbreak at Southeast Personal Care Home.
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 6.7 per cent provincially and 3.6 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30 a.m. today, 110 new cases of the virus have been identified and the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 29,968.
Manitoba’s COVID-19 Dashboard can be found here.
Today’s COVID-19 data shows:
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Corwyn Friesen, mySteinbach
Posted on 02/04/2021 at 12:47 pm
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 6.7 per cent provincially and 3.6 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30am on February 4, 2021, 110 new cases of the virus have been identified and the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 29,968.
Public health officials advise two additional deaths in people with COVID-19 have been reported today including:
a male in his 70s from the Winnipeg health region; and
a female in her 90s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to the outbreak at Southeast Personal Care Home.
Today’s COVID-19 data shows:
110 new COVID-19 cases, 2 deaths in Manitoba on Thursday
Manitoba s five-day test positivity rate is down slightly to 6.7 per cent, the lowest it s been since Oct. 23. Winnipeg s is down to 3.6 per cent, the province says.
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A health-care worker takes a nasal swab sample to test for COVID-19 in this file photo. Manitoba has completed more than 480,000 of the swabs since February 2020.(Natacha Pisarenko/The Associated Press)
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Self-isolation orders are now in effect in Manitoba, requiring those entering into the province to quarantine for 14 days unless given an exemption.
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Self-isolation orders are now in effect in Manitoba, requiring those entering into the province to quarantine for 14 days unless given an exemption.
Before the rules went into effect on 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, the province released the full text of them and outlined exactly who is exempt.
All exemptions are conditional on the persons named not showing any symptoms of COVID-19.
Those who are providing essential services like health-care providers, police officers, emergency services personnel, corrections officers, members of the military, social service workers, elected officials and their staff are all exempt.