Manitoba reports lowest daily COVID-19 case increase in months, with 45 new infections
Manitoba s five-day test positivity rate dropped to 4.6 per cent from five per cent on Tuesday, while Winnipeg s dipped to four per cent from 4.3 on Tuesday, the province says.
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Posted: Feb 24, 2021 12:31 PM CT | Last Updated: February 24
A paramedic does a nasal swab at a drive-thru COVID-19 test site. Since early last February, Manitoba has done more than half a million tests for the illness.(Justin Tang/The Canadian Press)
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There are less than 50 new COVID-19 cases being announced Wednesday, the lowest new total of daily cases since October.
There are 45 newly-identified COVID-19 cases in Manitoba. Due to an earlier data error, six previous cases have been removed from the total number of lab-confirmed cases, bringing the new total to 31,590.
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 4.6 per cent provincially and four per cent in Winnipeg.
Today’s COVID-19 data shows:
• three cases in Interlake–Eastern health region;
• 10 cases in the Northern health region;
• one case in the Prairie Mountain Health region;
• eight cases in the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region; and
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While seven more Manitobans have died from COVID-19 and another 203 have been newly sickened with it, Winnipeg’s test positivity rate is the lowest it has been in two months.
While seven more Manitobans have died from COVID-19 and another 203 have been newly sickened with it, Winnipeg’s test positivity rate is the lowest it has been in two months.
The province says more health-care workers are now eligible to receive a vaccine.
After weeks of code-red restrictions in Winnipeg and the rest of the province, the five-day test positivity rate number finally reached single digits with 9.4 per cent in Winnipeg and 9.9 per cent across the province. (The Canadian Press files)