{"id":65980,"date":"2020-08-24T15:54:10","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T19:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/?p=65980"},"modified":"2020-08-24T15:54:10","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T19:54:10","slug":"49-new-cases-of-covid-19-in-manitoba-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/canada\/49-new-cases-of-covid-19-in-manitoba-on-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"49 new cases of COVID-19 in Manitoba on Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Forty-nine new cases of COVID-19 were announced in Manitoba on Monday, marking another double-digit day following two record-breaking tallies over the weekend.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Public health officials announced 42\u00a0new cases on Saturday and\u00a072 new cases on Sunday, bringing Manitoba’s total active cases to 395 as of Monday.<\/p>\n

Manitoba’s Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Brent Roussin clarified during a news conference Monday that\u00a024 of the day’s new cases are being retroactively added to Sunday’s total, bringing that day’s case count to 96.<\/p>\n

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That leaves the official Monday tally at 25 new cases, he said.<\/p>\n

“Things have changed so quick with this. We weren’t really expecting to see the numbers we did this soon,” Roussin said.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 2.9 per cent.<\/p>\n

Roussin has previously said a test positivity rate over three\u00a0per cent\u00a0would suggest significant community-based transmission<\/u>, which could cause health officials to bring back restrictions to slow the spread of COVID-19.<\/p>\n

He says that’s not off the table, but the high number isn’t representative of how the whole province is doing.<\/p>\n

“It’s a bit skewed when a huge part of that positive test proportion is related to tight clusters. If you look at the last few days, two-thirds of that positive test proportion is related to cluster outbreaks,” he said. “It’s a bit misleading, that number, when it’s this high.”<\/p>\n

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Of the 49 new cases between both days announced Monday, there were 35 in the Prairie Mountain Health region, two\u00a0in the Interlake-Eastern Regional Health Authority, four in Southern Health and eight in the Winnipeg health region, Roussin said.<\/p>\n

Roussin said 236 of Manitoba’s 993 cases \u2014 nearly one-quarter \u2014 are in communal living communities, including Hutterite communities. People in these communities make up more than a third of the active cases\u00a0in the province, with 148 active as of Monday.<\/p>\n

Of those active cases, 99 were announced in the last three days while a mobile testing site was set up.<\/p>\n

“I think as we’re reaching\u00a0out, working with the communities \u2026 then we’re going to see cases that are related to that,” Roussin said.<\/p>\n

The majority of the cases announced on Monday in the Prairie Mountain Health region are related to known clusters in “communal living communities,” including Hutterite communities, he added.<\/p>\n

There have been 320 cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region since July 1, Roussin said, with 196 active cases as of Monday.\u00a0A total of\u00a052 of those\u00a0cases are employees at a business in\u00a0Brandon, Man., which media reports have confirmed is the Maple Leaf pork-processing plant. Thirty-four of those cases are active.<\/p>\n

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None of the cases announced Monday are related to an outbreak at the\u00a0Bethesda Place personal care home, he said.<\/p>\n

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