Both Manitoba and Saskatchewan reported deaths from COVID-19 Tuesday.
In Manitoba, an unidentified woman in her 90s from Steinbach became the province's 13th death from COVID-19. The woman's case was tied to a known outbreak at Bethesda Place, a seniors home in Steinbach operated by Southern Health-Sante Sud.
Manitoba reported 25 new cases of COVID-19, with 10 in the locked-down Prairie Mountain Health region, nine in Southern Health-Sante Sud and six in Winnipeg. One person remains ill with the disease in the Northern Health Region. Twenty more people have been reported as recovered in the past 24 hours.
The province has now cleared 1,000 cases, with 1,018 people having been infected with COVID-19 since the pandemic started. Province-wide, 399 people still have COVID-19 as of Tuesday. Seven people are in hospital due to the disease, with one person in intensive care.
Saskatchewan saw its fatality in the central west zone, where a person in their 70s died from the disease. The person's gender and their home community were not reported by the province.
What was reported by the province was a first for several weeks in Saskatchewan - a day with no new cases. The provincial total case mark went down by one, as one case found in Saskatchewan was deemed to have actually been in a resident of another province. Saskatchewan has now reported 1,601 total cases of COVID-19, with 88 cases still active. Out of the 88, 57 active cases are in "communal living settings".
