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;
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For the first time in months, there are no COVID-19 deaths being reported in the daily update.
Tuesday s COVID-19 update is showing no COVID-19 deaths, a first for 2021.
Close to 30,000 Manitobans have recovered from the virus, totalling 29,453 recoveries. There are 1,212 active cases and there have been a total of 886 deaths. Dues to a data error, eight COVID-19 cases identified previously are being removed from the total, adding 68 to the total number of cases.
New COVID-19 cases include:
• 21 cases in the Northern health region;
• one case in the Prairie Mountain Health region;
• zero cases in the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region; and