Manitoba Public Health Officials report the 13th death was a woman in her 90s from the Steinbach health district in the Southern Health Region. This is a previously announced case connected to a known outbreak at Bethesda Place.
Officials reported this afternoon 25 new cases have been identified bringing the total number of lab confirmed cases in Manitoba to 1018. Ten of these cases are in the Prairie Mountain Health Region, nine in the Southern Health Region and six in the Winnipeg Health Region. There are now 399 active cases, 606 individuals have recovered and seven are in hospital with one in intensive care.
Meanwhile Saskatchewan reported another person with COVID-19 has died which is a person in the Central West zone in the 70 to 79 age range. But they had no new cases to report today and one case was found to be an out of province resident and has been removed from the province’s count bringing the total to 1601 reported cases. 88 are considered active, 1490 people have recovered and four are in hospital with three in intensive care.
