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The province continues to ask Manitobans to only call to book a COVID-19 vaccine if they qualify for one during the current round.
Public health officials advise nine additional deaths in people with COVID-19 have been reported today, including:
A male in his 70s from the Winnipeg health region;
A male in his 70s from the Winnipeg health region and linked to the outbreak at the Saul & Claribel Simkin Centre;
A male in his 80s from the Winnipeg health region;
A male in his 80s from the Winnipeg health region;
A female in her 80s from the Winnipeg health region and linked to the outbreak at the Park Manor Care Home;
2020 novel coronavirus bulletin – 286
Corwyn Friesen, mySteinbach
Posted on 12/15/2020 at 1:00 pm
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 14.2 per cent provincially and 13.4 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30am on December 15, 2020, 272 new cases of the virus have been identified. However, one case was removed due to a data correction, making the net total 271 and brings the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 21,535.
Public health officials advise nine additional deaths in people with COVID-19 have been reported today including:
a male in his 70s from the Winnipeg health region;
a male in his 70s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to the outbreak at the Saul and Claribel Simkin Centre;
By Matthew Dekker
Dec 15, 2020 1:04 PM
Public health officials advise nine additional deaths in people with COVID-19 have been reported today including:
• a male in his 70s from the Winnipeg health region;
• a male in his 70s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to the outbreak at the Saul and Claribel Simkin Centre;
• a male in his 80s from the Winnipeg health region;
• a male in his 80s from the Winnipeg health region;
• a female in her 80s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to the outbreak at the Park Manor Care Home;
• a female in her 90s from the Interlake–Eastern health region, linked to the outbreak at the Kin Place;
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For a third consecutive day, new case numbers in Manitoba remained below 300 while the province’s death toll topped 500.
Another 272 new cases were added to the provincial total of 21,535 on Tuesday, following Sunday’s 273 and Monday’s 241 a streak of sub-300 numbers that haven’t been seen since late October.
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Winnipeg housed 128 of the new cases, followed by 53 cases in Northern Health and 49 in Prairie Mountain. The Southern Health region had 25 additional cases and there were 15 further positives in Interlake-Eastern.