Manitoba’s top doctor will give an update on the province’s ongoing fight against the novel coronavirus Monday.
Dr. Brent Roussin, Manitoba’s chief provincial officer of health, has scheduled a media briefing for 1 p.m.
Global News will stream the event live in this story.
Manitoba reported 35 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, bringing the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 1,186.
Twelve of the cases reported Sunday were in the Prairie Mountain Health region, where health officials said three cases of COVID-19 have been linked to a hospital in Brandon.
The Manitoba government says all three of the cases had been previously identified, and that investigations into them led to a unit on the second floor of the Brandon Regional Health Centre.
A spokesman for the health region says the affected unit is the Assiniboine Centre, which provides care to rehabilitation patients and patients with other longer-term stays.
The province says families and staff have been notified and contact tracing continues, but that risk is low.
It says outbreak protocols have been implemented “out of an abundance of caution” and visitors are being restricted on the affected floor.The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 2.2 per cent. There are 462 known active cases and 710 individuals have recovered from COVID-19.
The number of deaths due to COVID-19 is 14.
Due to data system upgrades over the weekend, the province said hospitalization and intensive care unit data would not be available until Monday.
–With files from The Canadian Press
Source:- Global News
