Province reports 70 new COVID cases, one death
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This article was published 24/02/2021 (1127 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Manitoba has detected 70 new COVID-19 cases, including 30 in the North, as public-health officials say the spread of the virus in one remote First Nation has stabilized.
Officials also reported one death Thursday, a Winnipeg man in his 70s. Since the pandemic started, 888 people have died from the disease.
New infections were reported in all but the Prairie Mountain health region, including 31 in Winnipeg, 30 in Northern Health, seven in Interlake-Eastern and two in Southern Health-Sante Sud.
The province said the risk of COVID-19 transmission has stabilized in Pauingassi First Nation, located nearly 300 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg, and strict public-health orders in the community are being lifted. All other orders in Manitoba remain in effect.
On Thursday, 196 people were in hospital being treated for COVID-19, including 26 patients in intensive care.
The province said no new cases of the more contagious B.1.1.7 coronavirus variant, which was first detected in the U.K. last fall, have been found; there have been five confirmed cases in Manitoba.
The five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 4.3 per cent provincially and 3.8 per cent in Winnipeg. Laboratories completed 2,290 COVID-19 tests Wednesday.
The current set of public-health orders is set to expire March 5. Chief provincial public health officer Dr. Brent Roussin will hold a news conference this afternoon to discuss possible changes to any new orders. The news conference will be livestreamed at www.youtube.com/user/ManitobaGovernment beginning at 2:30.
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