Net 266 new COVID-19 cases Saturday
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This article was published 01/05/2021 (1990 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
The province announced a net 266 new cases of COVID-19 Saturday and two new COVID-related deaths.
The dead include a woman in her 60s from the Northern health region and a man in his 60s from the Souther Health-Santé Sud health region linked to an outbreak at the Emerson Health Centre.
New cases include:
• 199 in the Winnipeg health region
• 34 in Prairie Mountain Health
• 17 in Northern
• 14 in Interlake-Eastern
• Nine in Southern Health-Santé Sud
There are currently 2,468 active cases of COVID-19 in Manitoba, of which 299 are in Prairie Mountain Health.
This is the region’s greatest active case count since early December and continues a sharp upward trend that has been taking place for the past month.
Active cases in Prairie Mountain Health include 77 in the Porcupine Mountain district, followed by 63 in Agassiz Mountain, 57 in Brandon, 36 in Little Saskatchewan, 18 in Turtle Mountain and 14 in Dauphin, with the balance spread through other districts in the region.
Hospitalization data was not available Saturday.
The five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 7.3 per cent provincially and 8.3 per cent in Winnipeg.
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