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Province issues alert to possible COVID-19 variant exposures in city
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1 death, 63 new COVID-19 cases in Manitoba on Monday after 1st weekend of latest reopenings
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By Greg Bordonaro, Liese Klein
Years after abandoning Connecticut’s small group insurance market, Bloomfield-based Cigna is preparing to launch a new health plan in the state targeted at employers with 50 or fewer workers.
Cigna is seeking regulatory approval from the Connecticut Insurance Department to begin offering a new small group plan in partnership with New York-based Oscar, an insurance-technology company that launched in 2012 to originally target the individual insurance market.
The two have joined forces to offer a new fully-insured health plan called “Cigna + Oscar.” The insurance product is relatively new, officially debuting nationally last year in just a few markets.
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Winnipeg s five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is lowering to 2.4 per cent.
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.
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 3.5 per cent provincially and 2.4 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30 a.m. today, 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 of a possible exposure March 4 at St. Andrew’s Ukrainian Church, 160 Euclid Ave. in Winnipeg from 11 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. High-risk contacts have already been contacted by public health officials. However, any person concerned about their exposure to or risk of having COVID-19 should call Health Links–Info Santé at 204-788-8200 or (toll-free) 1-888-315-9257 to be screened to see if a test is required.
WINNIPEG Manitoba health officials are warning people of a potential COVID-19 exposure at a church in Winnipeg last week. In the province’s COVID-19 bulletin released on Monday, the potential exposure occurred on March 4 at St. Andrews Ukrainian Church, located at 160 Euclid Avenue, between 11 a.m. and 12:45 p.m. During the news conference, Dr. Brent Roussin, Manitoba’s chief provincial public health officer, said there could be as many as 40 contacts involved. “In this certain circumstance, we were able to identify a number of the close contacts, but we were unable to identify and contact all of them,” he said. “Being a higher-risk setting, we decided to make a public disclosure, so all of those people would be aware.”
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