128 new COVID-19 cases, 4 deaths reported in Manitoba on Tuesday
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Manitoba reported 128 new COVID-19 cases and four deaths from the illness on Tuesday.
The Southern Health region leads in both categories with 66 of the latest cases and three of the deaths.
The other death is from the Prairie Mountain Health region, which has 11 of the new cases.
The Winnipeg health region has 30 cases, the Northern Health Region has 13 and the Interlake-Eastern health region has eight.
The total number of deaths in Manitoba since the pandemic started is now 1,319.
More specific information about the latest deaths — sex, age, links to outbreaks or virus variants — is not yet available. The Manitoba government no longer holds news conferences or sends news releases on Tuesdays to update case numbers, although some figures are available online.
Of the 128 cases reported Tuesday, 69 (54 per cent) are in people who are not vaccinated against COVID-19 and seven (five per cent) are in people who were partially vaccinated.
The other 52 (41 per cent) are in fully vaccinated people.
Data on the most up-to-date hospitalizations and number of patients in intensive care units is not currently available on the province's dashboards.
The province's five-day test positivity rate increased marginally to 5.2 per cent from 5.1 per cent on Monday.
There is no update on the rate for Winnipeg, which was at 2.7 per cent on Monday.
The total number of COVID-19 cases linked to school-age children or school staff since classes started on Sept. 7 is now 1,522, the province's dashboard on school data says.
That's an increase of 121 since the last update on Nov. 25.
Of the latest figures, 1,301 are student cases and 221 are staff. There have been 360 schools which have reported one or more cases.
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