Fifth death linked to PMH facility
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As the province is looking to loosen pandemic restrictions, public health officials announced 111 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, as well as 11 additional deaths associated with the virus.
According to a news release, this new group of fatalities included a man in his 80s from the Prairie Mountain Health region, whose death is linked to an ongoing outbreak at the McCreary-Alonsa Health Centre.
This marks the fifth death associated with the health facility, which is located approximately 140 kilometres northeast of Brandon and first began reporting fatalities on Jan. 11.
This new list of fatalities raises Manitoba’s COVID death toll to 783, which represents an 138 per cent increase from the 328 fatalities that were listed on Dec. 1, 2020.
In terms of a geographic breakdown, most of Tuesday’s new COVID cases were relegated to the Winnipeg health region (52).
The remaining cases were spread out between the Northern (33), Interlake-Eastern (12), Southern (six), and Prairie Mountain (eight) health regions.
Within Prairie Mountain Health specifically, most of the region’s 193 active cases centred around Brandon (59), with the Porcupine Mountain (54), Agassiz Mountain (37) and Turtle Mountain (10) districts also contending with a significant caseload.
But overall, Dr. Brent Roussin, Manitoba’s chief public health officer, told reporters on Tuesday that the province’s COVID numbers are heading in the right direction, with a five-day test positivity rate currently sitting at 7.4 per cent in Winnipeg and 9.9 per cent overall.
This downward trend has been taking place for the last couple of weeks, with daily COVID cases hovering around the 100 and 200 marks in January compared to late 2020, when daily case counts rose to as high as 543 on Nov. 23.
“The actions and hard work and sacrifices of Manitobans has continued to make a difference,” Roussin said.
“This means we can start looking at what reopening might look like.”
Otherwise, the province is currently dealing with 3,088 active cases overall and 279 hospitalizations due to the virus, which includes 131 people with active COVID-19 as well as 148 people who are no longer infectious but still require care.
On Monday, the province also completed another 1,462 tests, bringing the total number of lab tests completed since February 2020 to 454,951.
The total number of lab-confirmed COVID cases in Manitoba currently sits at 27,740.
» The Brandon Sun