Numbers continue to climb with 208 new cases identified

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Numbers continue to climb with 208 new cases identified

January 7, 2021

Manitoba Public Health announced today that there are 208 new cases of COVID-19 identified in the province. It was also announced that 12 more people have died from COVID-19.

Those who died from the virus have been identified as:

a male in his 30s from Northern health region;
a male in his 60s from Prairie Mountain Health;
a female in her 90s from Prairie Mountain Health, linked to the outbreak at Fairview Personal Care Home;
a female in her 60s from the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region;
a female in her 50s from the Winnipeg health region;
a female in her 60s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to the Convalescent Home of Winnipeg;
a female in her 70s from the Winnipeg health region;
a female in her 80s from the Winnipeg health region;
a female in her 80s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to the outbreak at the Concordia Personal Care Home;
a female in her 80s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to the outbreak at the River East Personal Care Home;
a male in his 90s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to the outbreak at the Charleswood Care Centre; and
a female in her 90s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to the outbreak at the Bethania Mennonite Personal Care Home.

The five-day test positivity rate is 9.9 per cent provincially and 10.5 per cent in Winnipeg.

The total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba is 25,742.

Today’s cases are from the following health regions:

nine cases in the Interlake-Eastern health region
60 cases in the Northern health region
17 cases in Prairie Mountain health region
17 cases in the Southern health region
105 cases in the Winnipeg health region

There are currently 4,506 active cases of COVID-19 in Manitoba with 20,519 people who have been listed as recovered.

319 are being treated in the hospital of which 228 are considered infectious. 35 people with the virus are in Intensive Care Units with 31 of them still considered infectious.

717 Manitobans have died since COVID-19 first arrived in the province.

2,132 tests were completed yesterday. Since the virus first arrived in February 2020, there have been 432,839 tests completed.

An outbreak has been declared at the McCreary/Alonsa Health Centre in McCreary.