Manitoba added 51 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, none of which were in Prairie Mountain Health.
Today’s data shows:
• one case in the Northern health region;
• three cases in the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region; and
• 12 cases in the Interlake–Eastern health region;
• 35 cases in the Winnipeg health region.
The province’s case total is now 2,191.
A new case in the Dauphin health district announced on Friday by public health officials has since been taken off the list. In Monday’s 1 o’clock press conference with the Health Minister and chief provincial public health officer, Dr. Brent Roussin was unable to offer specifics, but explained there are a few possibilities for why this happens.
One possibility is that a person may not be a resident of that health district, and so the case is removed and updated to another district where they currently reside. Roussin says another possibility is a false positive test.
“Sometimes we have probable cases that are symptomatic and a close contact to another case that we just declare as a case, pending lab results, and if the lab result comes back negative then sometimes they’ll be removed.”
There are 739 active cases in Manitoba, with 1,429 people listed as recovered, and 23 deaths related to COVID-19.
There are 23 people in hospital and six people in intensive care.
Some new health orders are going into effect for restaurants in the Winnipeg region, which go into effect for licensed premises in the capital area on Wednesday, October 7.
The following orders will go into effect for Winnipeg on Wednesday:
• No sale or service of liquor may take place in licensed premises between 10 p.m. and 9 a.m.
• The operator of the licensed premises must ensure that all members of the public vacate the licensed premises by 11 p.m.
• Licensed premises must be closed for dine-in services between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m.
• Staff must obtain contact information in writing from at least one person in each party attending the licensed premises and the licensee must retain this information for 21 days, after which it must be destroyed.
• The order does not prevent food from being sold from licensed premises after 11 p.m. for delivery or take-out.
• These orders impact the Winnipeg Metropolitan Region currently under orange and do not apply to liquor retail.
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