Southern Manitoba continues to report high numbers of COVID-19 cases, while Saskatchewan is seeing their active cases drop once again.
Manitoba reported 34 cases of the disease August 21, with the most cases being found in the Southern Health-Sante Sud region - 19 of the 34 cases were found there. Nine new cases were reported in Winnipeg, with five cases in Prairie Mountain Health and one new case in the Interlake-Eastern Regional Health Authority.
Provincial health officials said most of the cases found in Southern Health-Sante Sud were linked to an existing cluster in the region. Investigations into the cases are underway.
Manitoba has now reported 830 cases of COVID-19, with 265 people still having the disease. Five people are in hospital and one person is in intensive care. On Thursday, 2,331 tests for the disease were processed - over the past five days, two per cent of all COVID-19 cases in Manitoba have come up positive. Manitoba currently has the second highest number of cases per capita of all Canadian provinces, behind only Alberta.
Of Manitoba's 265 active cases, 116 of the cases are in Prairie Mountain Health, with 78 cases in Winnipeg and 65 in Southern Health-Sante Sud. The remaining six cases are in the Interlake-Eastern Regional Health Authority. No cases have been reported in the Northern Health Region since April 8.
In Saskatchewan, the far north has remained unscathed. Six new cases, spread out among the northwest, northeast, southwest and Saskatoon, were reported August 21. The new cases were joined by news of 20 people having recovered from the disease, bringing the province's number of active cases down to 134.
New numbers released August 21 have shown the extent of how hard COVID-19 has hit Hutterite communities. According to the province, 601 of the province's 1,595 total cases - more than a third of the province's entire case load - have been found in "communal living settings", the province's preferred term for Hutterite communities.
