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Simone Goulet is a first-floor resident at Fairview Personal Care Home in Brandon.
As the novel coronavirus fiercely reappeared in Manitoba after a rather quiet summer, Manitoba Public Health announced outbreak after outbreak in personal care homes. Fairview, with 243 residents, was no exception.
Simone Goulet, a resident at Fairview Personal Care Home, receives her first shot of the Moderna vaccine on Jan. 19. (Submitted)
When Simone’s daughter, Lorraine Winters, first heard of a positive case at the home, she was petrified.
The province declared the outbreak at the home Nov. 16, 2020. There were 109 cases, all told 41 staff and 68 residents. There were 18 reported deaths among residents. Manitoba Public Health declared the outbreak over on Feb. 3.
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The Manitoba government has launched an online dashboard dedicated to COVID-19 cases in schools.
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The Manitoba government has launched an online dashboard dedicated to COVID-19 cases in schools.
It provides current information, including cases within the last 14 days and the total number since Sept. 1, 2020, the province said in a statement Thursday.
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The dashboard also includes cases where students or staff may not have been infectious while at school. A map allows the public to see individual school case counts for the last 14 days by location.
By Ryan Young
Feb 4, 2021 6:58 PM
Public health officials advise two additional deaths in people with COVID-19 have been reported today, including:
A male in his 70s from the Winnipeg health region; and
A female in her 90s from the Winnipeg health region and linked to the outbreak at Southeast Personal Care Home.
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 6.7 per cent provincially and 3.6 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30 a.m. today, 110 new cases of the virus have been identified and the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 29,968.
Manitoba’s COVID-19 Dashboard can be found here.
Today’s COVID-19 data shows:
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Corwyn Friesen, mySteinbach
Posted on 02/04/2021 at 12:47 pm
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 6.7 per cent provincially and 3.6 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30am on February 4, 2021, 110 new cases of the virus have been identified and the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 29,968.
Public health officials advise two additional deaths in people with COVID-19 have been reported today including:
a male in his 70s from the Winnipeg health region; and
a female in her 90s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to the outbreak at Southeast Personal Care Home.
Today’s COVID-19 data shows: