New COVID-19 case found in Flin Flon, far north east 2 districts, northern active cases drop

One new case of COVID-19 in the Flin Flon health district, 39 new northern cases and an overall decline in northern active cases - here's what northern Manitoba's COVID-19 situation looks like today.

The Flin Flon/Snow Lake/Cranberry Portage/Sherridon district is back up to four active cases after a new case - the 66th such case to hav been found in the district since the start of the pandemic - was reported Feb. 4. Identifying information or possible public exposure relating to the case has not been released. 

While Saskatchewan's far north east health zone was hit hard with new COVID-19 cases, reporting 37 new cases of the disease, only two new COVID-19 cases were reported in far north east 2, the health zone that includes Creighton, Denare Beach and other Saskatchewan communities. The zone is now sitting at 54 active cases of COVID-19 - more exact information about case locations has not been provided by provincial health officials.

Throughout the rest of northern Manitoba, the region with the most new COVID-19 cases was the Thompson/Mystery Lake district - 14 new cases were reported in the district Thursday. One other region, the hard-hit Island Lake district, reported a high number of new cases, reporting eight new cases of COVID-19. No other district reported more than three new cases in northern Manitoba.

While northern Manitoba continues to report more new COVID-19 cases, recoveries are beginning to have an impact on the numbers. While 39 people have now been reported as newly ill, 51 people have now been marked as "recovered". The Northern Health Region now sits at 1,840 active cases of COVID-19. For more detailed district-by-district data, see below.

Province-wide, 110 new cases were reported in Manitoba, with 3,340 cases now being marked as active. A total of 264 people are in Manitoba hospitals due to COVID-19, with 36 of those people in intensive care. Five-day test positivity rates are showing signs of progress - the province's five-day rate is now 6.7 per cent, while in the past five days in Winnipeg, 3.6 per cent of people tested for COVID-19 have come up as positive.