Manitoba reports 342 new COVID-19 cases, 2 deaths in last 3 days – Winnipeg
Well being officers say two Manitobans with COVID-19 have died and 342 new infections have been recognized over the past three days.
One of many newest victims is a person in his 60s whose dying, reported Saturday, is linked to an unspecified variant of concern and an outbreak at Benito Private Care Dwelling within the Prairie Mountain Well being area.
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The opposite sufferer is a lady in her 70s from the Northern Well being area whose dying was reported Monday.
The newest circumstances embody 97 reported Saturday, 149 reported Sunday and 96 reported Monday.
In response to officers, 63 of Manitoba’s newest infections are amongst individuals who had but to be vaccinated, seven have been partially vaccinated and 26 have been totally vaccinated.
Properly over half of the 483 new circumstances reported throughout the province within the final 4 days come from the Southern Well being area, which makes up roughly 15 per cent of Manitoba’s inhabitants.
The Southern Well being area — which has seen a lot decrease vaccine uptake than different well being areas within the province — has seen 266 new circumstances since Friday.
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Over the identical interval, 41 infections have been reported within the Northern Well being area, 95 circumstances have been discovered within the Winnipeg Well being area, 41 have been discovered within the Prairie Mountain Well being area and 40 have been reported within the Interlake-Japanese Well being area.
Since March 2020, Manitoba has reported a complete of 63,688 lab-confirmed COVID-19 circumstances and 1,248 deaths linked to the virus.
With the newest infections, well being officers say there are at the moment 1,273 energetic circumstances of COVID-19 in Manitoba.
In response to numbers from the province, there are actually 98 Manitobans hospitalized on account of COVID-19, 13 greater than have been final reported Friday. There are 25 in intensive care items on account of the virus, officers mentioned.
Officers are reporting a brand new outbreak at a grade 11/12 class at École Régionale Notre-Dame in Notre Dame de Lourdes. They are saying non-immunized college students are self-isolating and the varsity has been moved to the restricted, or orange, degree on the province’s pandemic response system.
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