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Public health officials advise the current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 1.59 per cent. Sixteen new cases of the virus have been identified as of 9:30 a.m. today. This brings the total number of lab-confirmed positive and probable positive cases in Manitoba to 558. The data shows there were: 11 new cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region; and five new cases in the Southern Health - Santé Sud health region. While many of today's cases appear to be linked to known clusters in Brandon and the Southern Health - Santé Sud health region or are close contacts of a previously-announced case, preliminary information suggests that there may be a small number of cases of unknown acquisition in these areas. Case investigations are ongoing to determine possible COVID-19 exposures. When the investigations are completed, additional information will be provided as needed to inform people of any public health risks. The data also shows: six current hospitalizations, with three individuals in intensive care; 182 active cases and 352 individuals have recovered from COVID-19; and the number of deaths due to COVID-19 remains at eight. The data also shows: six current hospitalizations, with three individuals in intensive care; 196 active cases and 354 individuals have recovered from COVID-19; and the number of deaths due to COVID-19 remains at eight.

The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 1.10 per cent. Seventeen new cases of the virus have been identified as of 9:30 a.m. today. This brings the total number of lab-confirmed positive and probable positive cases in Manitoba to 491. The data shows there were: 10 new cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region; five new cases in the Winnipeg health region; and two new cases in the Southern Health - Santé Sud health region. Case investigations are ongoing. When completed, additional information will be provided as needed to inform people of any public health risks. The data also shows: nine current hospitalizations, with three individuals in intensive care; 132 active cases and 351 individuals have recovered from COVID-19; and the number of deaths due to COVID-19 remains at eight.

Dr. Roussin basically said that as long as we continue to follow the fundamentals (wash hands, social distance, and wear masks when that's not possible), then there is no need for any other extraordinary precautions. Most of the cases have all been linked (other investigations are still ongoing), so they are not concerned that anything out of the ordinary is happening.

The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 0.90 per cent. Thirty new cases of the virus have been identified as of 9:30 a.m. today. This brings the total number of lab-confirmed positive and probable positive cases in Manitoba to 474. The data shows there were: 18 new cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region; 11 new cases in the Southern Health - Santé Sud health region; and one new case in the Winnipeg health region. Case investigations are ongoing. When completed, additional information will be provided as needed to inform people of any public health risks. The data also shows: 10 current hospitalizations, with five individuals in intensive care, 118 active cases and 348 individuals have recovered from COVID-19, and the number of deaths due to COVID-19 is eight

Based on the numbers from the weekend: On Monday, one case was removed as it was a duplicate and from another jurisdiction. The data shows there were: 10 new cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region; two new cases in Interlake-Eastern Health region; 12 new cases in Southern Health-Sante Sud; and three new cases in the Winnipeg region. Case investigations are ongoing. When completed, additional information will be provided as needed to inform people of any public health risks. The data also shows: nine current hospitalizations, with four individuals in intensive care, 94 active cases and 341 individuals have recovered from COVID-19, and the number of deaths due to COVID-19 is eight.

two new cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region; three new cases in Interlake-Eastern Health region; one new case in the Winnipeg region.

That sounds fantastic. Sweden definitely has the models that should be followed with regards to COVID... /sarcasm

The 2 new cases are in the Prairie Mountain health region.

Per the Manitoba Health update: Today’s cases are a male and female in their 60s, a male and female in their 30s and a female in her 20s. All the cases are on a Hutterite colony in the Interlake-Eastern health region.

Prime candidates for the 2020 Darwin Awards

As a season ticket holder, I got the email yesterday announcing The W Hub which is a new portal for exclusive Bomber content. One of the features is a new podcast called Handled Internally hosted by Darren Cameron and Ed Tait. The first episode was on there with Buck Pierce and it was fantastic. Great insight into how he got started as a player and a coach along with some fun stories that you otherwise would never hear about. If you have access to it, I highly recommend listening.

But Florida is basically a long-term care facility in itself </sarcasm>

The point of the lockdown was to take those 30 to 49 year olds who have Covid and stop them from spreading it to people who are more vulnerable. Since Covid is so much more infectious that other things (like the flu), that was why the lockdown was required. As has been missed by many over and over again, it's not that Covid is extra deadly, it's that Covid is extra infectious. The more people who get infected, the more you put more vulnerable people at risk.

Thanks Noeller, that's always my first question when I see new cases.

I read that it was 2 males in their twenties. No other details though unfortunately.

This is a much more contagious flu, with no vaccine. It's the level of contagion that really makes COVID scary. Because it is so contagious, that many more people can get it, increasing the risk of people getting severely ill and needing hospital care, which then has the potential to overwhelm the health care systems and causing more deaths. THAT is what the measures were put in place to prevent.

My 7 year old daughter leans forward like that when she's gotta go pee... maybe he just always needs to take a leak.

I do appreciated that the commercials aren't yelling at me right now though. That's been a welcome change.

New conspiracy theory... COVID-19 was started by the WTA and the All England Tennis Club to finance some renovations...

I believe that the big difference between COVID and the swine flu (referenced in the article) and the seasonal flu is how contagious it is. The simple fact is that anyone saying that we should go on as normal is not taking into account that COVID is far more contagious than the other flus and has the potential to quickly overwhelm the medical systems. The only reason it hasn't is because of the measures that have been taken.

I think the part you're missing is that if the measures that have been taken (ie. social distancing, etc.), then the load on the health care system would be much higher than it already is, and the number of deaths would escalate much quicker than they have. If we are able to keep the number of deaths below that of the seasonal flu, then that would indicate that the measures taken have worked as intended.

We do have something, it's called the flu shot, and if more people took that seriously (ie. enough to get herd immunity) the number of deaths from the seasonal flu would likely go down significantly.

Since this whole thing started in China, you'd think they would have used this tea to stop it before it got out of hand... Yes, I realized that he's full of crap.

No shortened season, Grey Cup the day after boxing day 😁

Yeah, fair point... hard to follow the bouncing ball.