The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 10.1 per cent provincially and 8.4 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30am on January 12, 2021, 92 new cases of the virus have been identified. However, two cases were removed due to data correction and brings to net new cases to 90 and the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 26,540.
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Winnipeg Free Press
Last Modified: 5:54 PM CST Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020 | Updates
Winnipeg Free Press
Health Minister Cameron Friesen said a pilot project will start Dec. 21 at three long-term care facilities. (This) will expand the asymptomatic testing that is already underway in personal care homes by testing staff who do not have any symptoms, and is the first step in plans for an expansion of this work to other sites in the weeks ahead, Friesen said in a statement Thursday afternoon.
The first three homes to benefit from enhanced screening are Donwood Manor and Deer Lodge Centre in Winnipeg and Country Meadows in Neepawa. The pilot will run for four weeks.
Posted: Dec 17, 2020 12:32 PM CT | Last Updated: December 17, 2020
There are 221 new COVID-19 cases in Manitoba on Thursday.(Erik White/CBC) comments
Manitoba posted its lowest daily total of new COVID-19 cases in more than a month on Thursday, as well as the lowest five-day test-positivity rate since mid-November.
Public health officials announced 14 more deaths related to the illness, along with 221 new cases. That s the lowest single-day jump in cases since Nov. 3, when 103 new cases were reported.
The provincial test positivity fell to 13 per cent, down from 13.6 per cent and reaching its lowest level since Nov. 15. The rate in Winnipeg Thursday was 13.2 per cent.
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The province says 15,681 individuals are now listed as recovered from COVID-19.
Public health officials advise 14 additional deaths in people with COVID-19 have been reported today including:
• a female in her 30s from the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region;
• a male in his 40s from the Winnipeg health region;
• a female in her 50s from the Winnipeg health region;
• a female in her 50s from the Interlake–Eastern health region.
• a male in his 60s from the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region;
• a male in his 70s from the Winnipeg health region;
• a male in his 80s from the Winnipeg health region;