Manitoba reports 193 new COVID-19 cases, nearly half from Southern Health – Winnipeg

Manitoba’s Southern Well being area continues to see surging COVID-19 instances with the area making up almost half of the 193 new instances reported province-wide Friday.

Ninety-four of Manitoba’s newest instances come from Southern Well being, an space of low vaccination charges that makes up 15 per cent of the province’s complete inhabitants.

One other 48 new instances come from the Winnipeg Well being area, 25 had been discovered within the Prairie Mountain Well being area, 15 had been reported within the Northern Well being area and 11 had been discovered within the Interlake-Japanese Well being area.

In accordance with provincial well being knowledge, 105 of Manitoba’s newest infections are amongst individuals who had but to be vaccinated, together with 57 from the south.

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Manitoba now has 1,489 lively COVID-19 instances and the province’s five-day check positivity charge sits at 6.1 per cent.

Well being officers launched COVID-19 particulars from Thursday, when 166 new infections had been discovered and one extra demise was reported.

Additionally they launched element on COVID-19 deaths recorded since Tuesday, together with:

• a person in his 50s from Southern Well being well being area, linked to an unspecified variant of concern (reported Tuesday);
• a person in his 70s from Southern Well being well being area, linked to an unspecified variant of concern (reported Tuesday);
• a person in his 70s from Southern Well being well being area, linked to an unspecified variant of concern (reported Tuesday);
• a lady in her 80s from Southern Well being well being area, linked to an unspecified variant of concern (reported Tuesday);
• a person in his 60s from Prairie Mountain Well being area, linked to an unspecified variant of concern (reported Wednesday);
• a lady in her 70s from Southern Well being well being area (reported Wednesday); and
• a person in his 80s from Prairie Mountain Well being area (reported Thursday).

Since March 2020, Manitoba has now reported 65,371 lab-confirmed COVID-19 instances and 1,269 deaths linked to the virus.

In the meantime, officers stated there are at the moment 145 Manitobans in hospital with COVID-19 and 30 sufferers in ICU on account of the virus.

The variety of COVID-19 sufferers in intensive care has risen 25 per cent within the final week, officers stated.

Outbreaks, enforcement

Well being officers stated a number of new outbreaks have been declared at a number of well being services and faculties throughout the province.

Outbreaks have been declared at Portage District Common Hospital Rehab Unit in Portage la Prairie and Russell Private Care House in Russell. The services have been moved to essential, or purple, on the province’s pandemic response system.

Lessons have been moved to distant studying on the following faculties as a result of outbreaks:

• River Heights Faculty, kindergarten cohort, in Brandon;
• École Lacerte Faculty, kindergarten class, in Winnipeg;
• Westdale Faculty, Grade 6, in Winnipeg;
• Ralph Maybank Faculty, grades 2/3 and three/4 lessons, in Winnipeg;
• Edmund Partridge Faculty, Grade 6 class, in Winnipeg; and
• South Pointe Faculty, Grade 2 class, in Winnipeg.

All the colleges have moved to orange, or restricted, on the province’s pandemic response system.

Outbreaks at École Régionale Notre-Dame, Grade 11/12 class, in Notre Dame des Lourdes and Springs Christian Academy-Youville Campus in Winnipeg have ended, officers stated.

The province additionally launched the newest public well being enforcement numbers Friday.

They are saying 46 warnings and 20 tickets had been issued between Nov. 1 and Nov. 7.

The tickets embrace one $1,296 high quality to a person, 18 $298 fines for these caught not sporting a masks in an indoor public area, and one $5,000 high quality to a enterprise.

Questions on COVID-19? Listed below are some issues you must know:

Signs can embrace fever, cough and issue respiration — similar to a chilly or flu. Some individuals can develop a extra extreme sickness. Folks most prone to this embrace older adults and other people with extreme persistent medical situations like coronary heart, lung or kidney illness. For those who develop signs, contact public well being authorities.

To forestall the virus from spreading, consultants suggest frequent handwashing and coughing into your sleeve. Additionally they suggest minimizing contact with others, staying dwelling as a lot as potential and sustaining a distance of two metres from different individuals should you exit. In conditions the place you may’t hold a protected distance from others, public well being officers suggest the usage of a non-medical face masks or overlaying to stop spreading the respiratory droplets that may carry the virus. In some provinces and municipalities throughout the nation, masks or face coverings at the moment are necessary in indoor public areas.

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