COVID-19 cases in Winnipeg continued to increase on Thursday, when the provincial government announced nine new cases of disease in the city out of a total of 15 new cases in Manitoba.
This update raises the number of active instances in the city to 163, which is only a portion of the total of 360 instances in the province.
“Family contacts and family-to-family contacts are the driving force,” Dr. Brent Roussin, provincial director of public health, said Thursday at a press convention.
However, about 20% of the city’s instances are now similar to those of the community; In the following week, 22 new cases have been known in Winnipeg with no known origin.
In addition to the nine instances of Winnipeg, two new instances were reported in the Interlake East, Prairie Mountain, and Southern fitness regions.
Many of the new instances are contacts from known COVID-19 instances, Roussin said.
Two instances of the province’s total were also removed on Thursday: one decided to be someone from outside the province and the other was a double, Roussin said, bringing the total number of instances in the province to 1,378.
As the spread of COVID-19 among families increases the number of cases in Winnipeg, the more detailed data to be obtained this week may show trends in the exact place where transmission occurs.
The province announced Friday that it will distribute the new instances in the city to one of 12 separate districts.
The change, announced this week, comes in reaction to the call of the inhabitants of Manitoba to gain a more accurate geographical knowledge about the instances of COVID-19 in the city. In the past, the province has treated all of Winnipeg as a singles fitness district, out of a total of 68 fitness districts in the province.
The province has also pledged to publish enough instance data in schools so that others know which cohorts are affected, Roussin said Thursday, following the first case of COVID-19 in Manitoba at a school.
But there is also a problem publishing this information, Roussin said. In the case of the school announced Wednesday, the asymptomatic student at Churchill High School did everything he was supposed to do, but was under scrutiny, which can have negative side effects. .
“There is this importance to this individual,” Roussin said. ” But it is also vital for the next user to have, say, mild symptoms, who will think twice before taking a check because of the checkpoint. “
The threat of contagion at school is low because the student physically distanced himself and wore a mask, he said.
Although cases like this highlight the potential benefits of asymptomatic verification, Roussin said, other people without COVID-19 symptoms are not yet invited to undergo verification unless verification is done through public fitness officials.
“It’s going to locate those kind of anecdotal [cases] where it would possibly have brought benefits,” he said. “But for it to really work, you must perform asymptomatic regime tests on a giant scale, and it’s just not imaginable to do that. “
No new instances of COVID-19 have been detected in any of the non-public care homes or physical care centers that have brought hatching protocols in Manitoba since the province updated those numbers on Tuesday.
Roussin also said Thursday that other people diagnosed with COVID-19 want only 10 days of self-isolation in Manitoba, below the mandatory two-week isolation required.
This replacement, which was made in Quebec and is in line with recent studies on the infectious age of the virus, was made almost two weeks ago, although it was not widely disseminated.
Manitoba will expand its COVID-19 state of emergency for the sixth time, at 4 p. m. , according to a provincial press release, and the extension will last 30 days.
There are now 11 other people hospitalized with COVID-19 in Manitoba, 3 of whom are under intensive care. The positivity rate of five-day tests in Manitoba is now 1. 2%.
To date, 1,002 more people in Manitoba have recovered from COVID-19; Another 16 people died.
On Thursday, the province announced two other possible exhibition sites for COVID-19, one at the Lilac Resort on the Trans-Canada Highway near Ste. Anne, Man. , September 1-3.
The other was on Air Canada flight AC 295 from Winnipeg to Vancouver on September 5. People sitting in rows 19 to 25 self-isolated for 14 days after the flight and monitor symptoms. Everyone who was on the flight, but not the affected ones. rows, control symptoms.
The COVID-19 check at the Keystone Center in Brandon will be cleverly closed after Sept. 12, the province announced.
1,173 COVID-19 tests were conducted in the province on Wednesday, bringing the total conducted in Manitoba since early February to 150,350.
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