306 COVID-19 cases, 2 deaths reported over 3 days in Manitoba
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Manitoba public health officials report 306 new COVID-19 cases and two deaths over three days, a provincial news release issued on Monday says.
There were 100 new cases on Saturday, 113 on Sunday and 93 on Monday.
Of the cases identified on Monday, the vast majority — 46, with 41 in people who are not fully vaccinated — are in the Southern Health Region, which has just over 15 per cent of the population of Manitoba.
There are also 25 new cases in the Winnipeg health region (10 not fully vaccinated), eight in the Northern Health Region (six not fully vaccinated), seven in the Interlake-Eastern health region (six not fully vaccinated) and seven in the Prairie Mountain Health region (four not fully vaccinated).
Across the province, more than half of the people who are admitted to ICU receive their first COVID-19 test in hospital, Chief Provincial Public Health Officer Dr. Brent Roussin said in an online news conference on Monday.
"There's people who are delaying being tested, are out in community while very ill and not being diagnosed until being admitted when they're severely ill. A lot of concerns about what's happening throughout Manitoba, but certainly we see significant transmission in the Southern Health Region right now," he said.
The two people who died were a man in his 40s from the Southern Health region and a man in his 60s from the Winnipeg health region.
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