Manitoba novel coronavirus bulletin – 411
Corwyn Friesen, mySteinbach
Posted on 04/24/2021 at 12:40 pm
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 6.8 per cent provincially and 7.2 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30am on April 24, 2021, 276 new cases of the virus have been identified. However, six cases have been removed due to data correction. This brings the net-new number of cases today to 270 and the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 37,339.
Public health officials advise that three new deaths in people with COVID-19 have been reported today:
a male in his 40s from the Winnipeg health region;
a female in her 60s from the Winnipeg health region; and
By Doug Falconer
Apr 24, 2021 11:43 AM
Public health officials advise that three new deaths in people with COVID-19 have been reported today:
• a male in his 40s from the Winnipeg health region;
• a female in her 60s from the Winnipeg health region; and
• a male in his 80s from the Prairie Mountain health region and linked to the outbreak at the Russell Health Centre.
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 6.8 per cent provincially and 7.2 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30 a.m. today, 276 new cases of the virus have been identified. However, six cases have been removed due to data correction. This brings the net-new number of cases today to 270 and the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 37,339.
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Manitoba’s COVID-19 numbers during the third wave continued their ascent in the wrong direction on Saturday as 276 new cases were identified and test positivity rates soared once again.
Manitoba’s test positivity rate is now at 6.8%, 1.7% higher than it was last Friday, and nearly 4% higher than it was a month ago. In Winnipeg, that number has climbed 2.3% during the same time frame, resting at 7.2% on Saturday.
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The province’s capital housed 183 of Saturday’s reported cases, with every health authority in the province recording at least double-digit cases. Prairie Mountain identified 34 new infections, with 27 in Southern Health, 21 in Northern Health and 11 in Interlake-Eastern also reported.
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The Manitoba government says it’s up to First Nations leaders to decide when Moderna doses are loaded onto planes, as chiefs question a 10-day lag in getting COVID-19 vaccines out of Winnipeg freezers.