WINNIPEG --
Nearly two dozen of Manitoba’s health-care workers tested positive for COVID-19 in the span of one week.
According to the province’s latest COVID-19 and seasonal influenza surveillance report from Jan. 31 to Feb. 6, a total of 1,898 of Manitoba’s health-care workers have contracted the disease since the pandemic began. This is 23 more workers than the province reported the week before.
The report shows that 1,876 of these health-care workers have recovered, and two have died from COVID-19.
Of these nearly 1,900 workers, 1,105 are allied heath, health professionals and support staff, 535 are nurses/licensed practical nurses, 71 are physicians/physicians in training, and 39 are first responders. The occupations of 148 of the health-care workers are not identified.