334 COVID-19 cases, 2 deaths reported over 3 days in Manitoba
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Manitoba reported 334 new COVID-19 cases and two deaths over three days on Monday, the first update since Friday.
Of the 78 cases on Monday, 54 are in people who are unvaccinated and another five are in people who are partly vaccinated. The other 19 cases are in people who are fully vaccinated.
The Southern Health region has 36 of the latest cases (32 not fully vaccinated).
The next closest region is half of that, with 18 in the Prairie Mountain Health region (14 not fully vaccinated).
The Winnipeg health region has 12 of the new cases (seven not fully vaccinated), the Northern Health Region has 10 (five not fully vaccinated), and the Interlake-Eastern health region has two (one not fully vaccinated).
The two deaths are a man in his 70s from the Southern Health region and a man in his 80s from the Interlake-Eastern health region. Both are linked to an unspecified variant of concern.
Manitoba's total number of deaths linked to the illness is now 1,237.
More to come
This story is a collaboration between the Investigative Journalism Foundation and CBC Saskatchewan.
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