Public health officials advise the current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 1.3 per cent and 16 new cases of the virus have been identified as of 9:30 a.m. today. This brings the total number of cases in Manitoba to 1,365.
The data shows:
- one case in the Prairie Mountain Health region
- one case in the Southern Health region
- 14 cases in the Winnipeg health region
The data also shows:
- 404 active cases and 945 individuals have recovered from COVID- 19
- there are 12 people in hospital and three people in intensive care
- the number of deaths due to COVID-19 is 16
PANDEMIC RESPONSE LEVEL UPDATE
COVID-19 CONTACT & EXPOSURE UPDATE: September 9, 2020
Public health is advising of a possible exposure to COVID-19 may have occurred on Sept 2. to 5 at the Tim Horton’s, 3296 Portage Ave. Times of exposures are listed online and can be found at manitoba.ca/covid19/updates/flights.html#event
Preliminary investigations indicate that several of today’s Winnipeg cases are close contacts of known cases and are not linked to any current outbreaks. Case investigations continue and if a public health risk is identified, the public will be notified.
| Exposure (Data extracted up to 4:00am on September 4, 2020) |
| Source of infection in cases (% of total):
· Travel: 17.9% · Close contact to cases: 59.7% · Unknown: 14.9% · Pending: 7.4% Close contacts to cases: · Top contact type: Household exposure · Household contacts converting to cases: 11.2% |
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