By Ryan Young
May 1, 2021 12:05 PM
Public health officials advise that two new deaths in a person with COVID-19 have been reported today:
• a female in her 60s from the Northern health region; and
• a male in his 60s from the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region, linked to an outbreak at the Emerson Health Centre.
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 7.3 per cent provincially and 8.3 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30 a.m. today, 273 new cases of the virus have been identified. However, seven cases have been removed due to data correction. This brings the net-new number of cases today to 266 and the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 38,995.
May 1, 2021
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Public health officials advise that two new deaths in a person with COVID-19 have been reported today:
• a female in her 60s from the Northern health region; and
• a male in his 60s from the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region, linked to an outbreak at the Emerson Health Centre.
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 7.3 per cent provincially and 8.3 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30 a.m. today, 273 new cases of the virus have been identified. However, seven cases have been removed due to data correction. This brings the net-new number of cases today to 266 and the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 38,995.
WINNIPEG The province has reported two more people have died due to COVID-19 on Saturday, bringing the total number of COVID-19 deaths in the province to 976. The deaths involve two people in their sixties, a woman in the Northern Health region and a man from the Southern Health region, the latter linked to an outbreak at the Emerson Health Centre. The province is also reporting 273 new cases of the virus have been identified. Seven cases were removed due to a data correction, bringing the provincial total of lab-confirmed cases to 38,995. Of the newly announced cases, the majority are in the Winnipeg health region with 199. The Prairie Mountain health region had 34 cases, 14 were in the Interlake-Eastern health region, 17 in the Northern health region and nine cases were reported in Southern Health–Santé Sud.
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 7.3 per cent provincially and 8.3 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30am on May 1, 2021, 273 new cases of the virus have been identified. However, seven cases have been removed due to data correction. This brings the net-new number of cases today to 266 and the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 38,995.
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Public health officials announced two new deaths due to COVID-19 on Saturday as the test positivity rate continued to be remain high.
The deaths were in a woman in her 60s from the Northern health region and a man in his 60s from Southern Health, linked to an outbreak at the Emerson Health Centre. That raises the number of deaths due to COVID-19 to 976.
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The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 7.3% provincially and 8.3% in Winnipeg, up slightly from Friday when the rates were 7.2% and 8.2% respectively. However, it marked the sixth day in a row where Winnipeg’s rate has been higher than 8%.