324 new COVID-19 cases, 2 more deaths in Manitoba over 3 days
CBC
Manitoba reports 324 new cases of COVID-19 and two more people have died over the last three days.
Lab tests identified 121 cases on Saturday, 120 cases on Sunday and 83 cases on Monday.
The provincial test positivity rate hit 3.7 per cent, up from three per cent on Friday. In Winnipeg, the rate is 1.5 per cent, up from 1.3 per cent on Friday.
The two people whose deaths were announced Monday are men in their 70s from the Southern Health region, linked to unspecified variants of concern.
The Southern Health region had the highest number of new cases over the three days, with 122, followed by 87 in the Winnipeg health region, 48 in the Northern Health Region, 42 in Prairie Mountain Health and 25 in the Interlake-Eastern health region.
Of the 83 new cases identified on Monday, 59 are in people who were not fully vaccinated.
The proportion of new cases Monday that weren't fully vaccinated were 25 out of 29 in Southern Health, 14 out of 23 in the Winnipeg region, nine of 15 in Prairie Mountain Health, 10 of 12 in the Northern region and one of four in the Interlake-Eastern region.
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