Manitoba fitness officials reported 16 new COVID-19 cases on Monday and said the province was seeing the first symptoms of network transmission.
The new laboratory instances shown and likely reported Monday come with 11 other people in the Prairie Mountain Health domain and five other people in southern Manitoba. They carry the total number of known cases in the province from March to 558.
On Monday, six others were hospitalized, three of them in intensive care. Of the 558 known infections, 196 cases remain active, while another 354 people have recovered. Eight other people died.
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Like the 35 new instances reported on Sunday, fitness officials said many instances reported Monday gave the impression of being connected to known groups in the southern fitness region and the city of Brandon or were close contacts from a case reported in the past, the province. said there may be a small number of unknown procurement cases in the unit areas.
Manitoba Medical Director of Health Dr. Brent Roussin said Monday that the case organization in Brandon had more than 64 cases, and that the additional province is now seeing the early stages of network transmission.
“There are a small number of instances with an unknown acquisition, which we’re going to be a transmission network,” he said.
Roussin has stated in the past that the instances in Brandon are all similar to those of a user who returned to the western city of Manitoba from eastern Canada and did not go far enough.
Roussin says we’re now seeing the first symptoms of transmission in the province.
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A case outbreak at the Brandon Maple Leaf Foods plant continues, Roussin said, and four cases were known Monday.
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Maple Leaf Foods says 23 plant workers tested positive for COVID-19.
While the union representing the plant’s staff has called for its closure, Maple Leaf has rejected the idea.
On Monday, Roussin said the most recent instances of the plant were self- isolation and that the search for ongoing contacts to identify close contacts. He said there’s no evidence of transmission inside the plant.
“The company goes beyond public fitness recommendations and has more staff who isolate itself than public fitness recommends,” he said. “In addition, many other protocols have been implemented, adding cohort staff.”
A handful of restaurants in Brandon, in addition to Tim Hortons and McDonald’s, also closed after workers tested positive for the virus.
Health officials reported on Sunday 1365 laboratory checks for COVID-19 in Manitoba, bringing the total number of checks on the virus in the province from early February to 103872. The positivity rate for five-day COVID-19 control in Manitoba 1.59% on Monday.
Roussin said Monday that recent knowledge shows that the time to get tested for COVID-19 is 24 hours after the onset of symptoms.
News comes when long queues were reported Monday at Brandon’s verification site, which Health Minister Cameron Friesen said the province knew. He said there might be a moment of site opening at the Keystone Center in Brandon on Tuesday.
Manitoba had spent almost part of July reporting a new case of the virus in singles. But that series ended on July 14 when five new instances were identified. Since then, 228 new cases have been reported in Manitoba.
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The number of developing cases follows the rest of the province’s most recent provincial physical fitness regulations for the virus, which was activated on July 25.
As a component of Phase Four of the reopening of casinos, cinemas and theaters have been allowed to reopen their capacity at 30%. The previous easing of the restrictions followed, including allowing the reopening of restaurants and bars with restrictions and the lifting of mandatory quarantine regulations for travelers arriving in Manitoba from western provinces.
Roussin said that in the future, if restrictions are needed again, the province will likely employ a more “surgical” approach, employing regional constraints rather than widespread closures.
He said the province plans to publish more main points on some posters that would lead to the cancellation of comfort restrictions in the coming weeks.
Friesen also said Monday that he hopes the province will identify cases in more detail, not only through the physical fitness government, until the end of the week.
Questions about COVID-19? Here are some things you want to know:
Symptoms can come with fever, cough and shortness of breath, very unintentional or flu. Some other people would possibly expand a more serious illness. The other people who are most at risk are older people and others with serious chronic diseases such as heart, lung or kidney disease. If you expand your symptoms, contact your public fitness authorities.
To prevent the virus from spreading, experts propose to wash your hands regularly and cough up your sleeve. They also propose to minimize contact with others, stay at home as much as imaginable and stay at a distance of two meters from other people if you pass out. In conditions where it cannot be kept at a safe distance from others, public fitness officials propose the use of a non-medical mask or blanket to prevent the spread of respiratory droplets that may bring the virus. In some provinces and municipalities throughout the country, masks or masks are now mandatory in indoor public spaces.
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