Good news on the local COVID-19 front. The COVID-19 outbreak at Northern Lights Manor is now considered over by provincial health officials and residents will soon get doses of a vaccine.
Manitoba health officials gave the province an early Christmas gift of sorts Dec. 21 - the lowest number of new COVID-19 cases in almost two months. The province reported 166 net new cases of COVID-19 on the shortest day of the year, including 25 cases within the Northern Health Region. Four deaths were reported Monday due to COVID-19, each from southern Manitoba communities. article continues below
Trending Stories Within the district of Flin Flon/Snow Lake/Cranberry Portage/Sherridon, only two cases of COVID-19 remain active. According to the most recent provincial health data, 32 people have had the disease and recovered, while one person who tested positive for COVID-19 has died.
Four new deaths related to the virus were announced Dec. 21, bringing the total number of COVID deaths in Manitoba to 572. The five-day test positivity rate of 11.5 per cent was also the lowest it has been since Remembrance Day, when it was 11 per cent. There were 25 new cases of the virus in the province’s north, which has had 1,850 total cases since the pandemic began. There are 897 active cases in the region as of Monday, including 282 in the Shamattawa/York Factory/Tataskweyak/Split Lake health district, 233 in the Island Lake health district, 144 in the Bunibonibee/Oxford House/Manto Sipi/God’s River/God’s Lake region, 86 in The Pas/Opaskwayak/Kelsey and 69 in the Thompson/Mystery Lake health district.
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Another nine Manitobans have died with COVID-19.
Public health officials have also confirmed 238 new cases of COVID-19 in Manitoba, bringing the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 22,630.
Today s death toll includes:
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 region, linked to an outbreak at Morris General Hospital;
a female in her 50s from the Winnipeg health region;
a female in her 70s from the Winnipeg health region linked to an outbreak at Fred Douglas Lodge;
238 new COVID-19 cases announced, nine deaths Saturday
Chief provincial public health officer Dr. Brent Roussin
The province has announced 238 new cases of the virus and nine additional deaths, along with the lowest Winnipeg region COVID-19 case count in over a month.
The province has announced 238 new cases of the virus and nine additional deaths, along with the lowest Winnipeg region COVID-19 case count in over a month.
Out of the 238 cases, 104 are people in the Winnipeg region – the lowest number since early November – and 55 are in the Northern health region, which has been facing outbreaks in First Nations communities. Thirty-three new cases are from the Interlake-Eastern region, 30 are in the Southern Health-Santé Sud region and 16 cases are in the Prairie Mountain Health region.