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Posted: Jan 24, 2021 12:31 PM CT | Last Updated: January 24
COVID-19 testing continues at this Brandon testing site.(Jaison Empson/CBC)
There are three more deaths and 222 new cases of COVID-19 in Manitoba on Sunday, the day after the province loosened restrictions in the southern half of the province.
For the second day in a row, more than half of the new cases 116 are in the north, a provincial news release said.
On Saturday, 216 cases of the virus were reported. Of those, 118 were in the Northern Health Region.
Some of the new cases are in Fox Lake Cree Nation, which is battling an outbreak. Although some recoveries are being reported, the First Nation, which is about 700 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg, saw 11 new cases over the past two days.