399 COVID-19 cases, 4 deaths reported in Manitoba over 3 days
CBC
There are 399 new COVID-19 cases and four deaths over three days in Manitoba, a provincial news release says.
There were 140 cases identified on Saturday, 102 on Sunday and 157 on Monday.
The four deaths over the three days include two women whose deaths were reported Saturday: one in her 90s from the Prairie Mountain Health Region and a woman in her 50s from the Interlake-Eastern health region. Both are linked to unspecified variants of concern.
A woman in her 100s from the Interlake-Eastern health region whose death is linked to an unspecified variant was reported Sunday. On Monday, the death of a man in his 80s from the Southern Health region was reported.
The total number of deaths caused by the disease is now 1,273. There are currently 1,499 active cases of COVID-19 and 62,991 people have recovered.
Of the cases announced Monday, just over half were in people who haven't been fully vaccinated:
The provincial test positivity rate dropped slightly from 6.1 per cent on Friday to 5.9 per cent on Monday. In Winnipeg, the rate is 3.1 per cent.
There are 146 Manitobans in hospital with COVID-19, up one since Friday. Of those, 31 are in intensive care, also up one since Friday.
The province also announced a new COVID-19 outbreak in the dialysis unit of the Portage District General Hospital in Portage la Prairie.
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