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Manitoba novel coronavirus bulletin – 366
Corwyn Friesen, mySteinbach
Posted on 03/08/2021 at 12:38 pm
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 3.5 per cent provincially and 2.4 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30am on March 8, 2021, 63 new cases of the virus have been identified. The total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 32,288.
Public health officials advise one additional death in a person with COVID-19 has been reported today:
a female in her 80s from the Northern health region.
Case investigations continue and if a public health risk is identified, the public will be notified.
Today’s COVID-19 data shows:
zero cases in Interlake-Eastern health region;
WINNIPEG Along with 166 new cases, Manitoba health officials reported two new COVID-19 deaths. Announced in the province s daily COVID-19 bulletin on Saturday, the deaths include a Winnipeg man in his 80s linked to the outbreak at Holy Family Personal Care Home and a man in his 90s from the Southern Health-Santé Sud health region linked to the outbreak at Heritage Life Personal Care Home. The COVID-19 death toll in Manitoba now sits at 825. Of the new cases, 47 are in Winnipeg, which has a five-day test positivity rate of 4.4 per cent. Out of the remaining cases, 26 are in the Interlake-Eastern health region, 69 are in the Northern health region, 14 are in the Prairie Mountain health region and ten are in the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region.