2020 novel coronavirus bulletin – 301
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Posted on 01/02/2021 at 1:51 pm
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 10.4 per cent provincially and 11.1 per cent in Winnipeg. Between 9:30am on December 31, 2020, and 9:30am on January 2, 2021, 327 new cases of the virus have been identified. However, one case was removed due to data correction and brings the net new cases to 326 and the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 25,026.
Public health officials advise 11 additional deaths in people with COVID-19 have been reported today for the period of Jan. 1 and 2 including:
a male in his 50s from the Northern health region;
a male in his 60s from the Interlake-Eastern Health region;
Winnipeg Free Press
Costly care-home additions remain shuttered during code-red restrictions
Look but don t go in there: Manitoba’s $17.9-million visitation shelters to allow personal care home residents to see loved ones are nearly all in place but won’t be used under code-red restrictions. (John Woods / Winnipeg Free Press files)
Manitoba’s $17.9-million visitation shelters to allow personal care home residents to see loved ones during a pandemic are nearly all in place but won’t be used under code-red restrictions.
Winnipeg Free Press
Manitoba’s $17.9-million visitation shelters to allow personal care home residents to see loved ones during a pandemic are nearly all in place but won’t be used under code-red restrictions.
By Ryan Young
Dec 24, 2020 12:41 PM
Public health officials advise 12 additional deaths in people with COVID-19 have been reported today, including:
• a female in her 30s from the Southern Health-Santé Sud region;
• a female in her 80s from the Southern Health-Santé Sud region;
• a male in his 80s from the Northern health region;
• a female in her 50s from the Winnipeg health region;
• a female in her 60s from the Winnipeg health region;
• a male in his 60s from the Winnipeg health region;
• a male in his 60s from the Winnipeg health region;
• a female in her 80s from the Winnipeg health region;
Winnipeg Free Press Posted:
Last Modified: 3:44 PM CST Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020 | Updates
Twelve more Manitobans have died of COVID-19 as the province heads into a Christmas unlike any other, banning in-person holiday gatherings.
Twelve more Manitobans have died of COVID-19 as the province heads into a Christmas unlike any other, banning in-person holiday gatherings.
Another 244 cases of the virus were confirmed Thursday, and test-positivity rates provincewide and in Winnipeg were 10.6 per cent. Thirty-five of Manitoba s total 41 intensive-care patients have COVID-19, and 254 people are hospitalized with the virus.
Outbreaks have been declared at the E5 medicine unit at St. Boniface Hospital, Calvary Place personal-care home and Deer Lodge Centre.
A woman in her 30s in the Southern Health region is one of a dozen more Manitobans who have died from COVID-19, the province said in a news release on Thursday.