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WINNIPEG The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority has said an employee working at the Heritage Lodge Long Term Care Home has tested positive for a COVID-19 variant. Revera, the company that runs the care home, said in a statement on its website that it learned the employee tested for the B.1.1.7. variant on March 13. The company said the worker is currently at home in self-isolation. Revera added a resident has also recently tested positive for COVID-19 and they are currently awaiting the result from that test to determine if it is also a variant case or not. We are committed to doing everything we can to protect the health and safety of our residents, staff members and their families, Revera said in a statement on its website.
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By Matthew Dekker
Public health officials advise no additional deaths in people with COVID-19 reported today.
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 4.4 per cent provincially and 3.4 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30 a.m. today, 96 new cases of the virus have been identified. However, three cases have been removed due to data correction. This brings the net-new number of cases today to 93 and the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 32,996.
Public health officials are announcing that 9 additional confirmed cases as a result of the B.1.1.7 COVID-19 variant of concern first identified in the United Kingdom have been detected. The cases identified today are all from the Winnipeg health region.