No new cases, no new recoveries - things are staying pat with COVID-19 in northern Manitoba Wednesday.
The province announced three more deaths from the disease Wednesday, the 25th, 26th and 27th Manitobans to die from COVID-19 during the pandemic. The deaths were reported in a man in his 60s living in the Interlake-Eastern Regional Health Authority, a man in his 70s from Winnipeg and a woman in her 90s in Winnipeg. The man from the Interlake region was connected to a "communal living" community, likely a Hutterite colony, while the woman from Winnipeg was tied to an outbreak at the Parkview Place seniors' residence.
Manitoba reported 32 new cases, including 22 in Winnipeg, pushing the province's active case count up to 803, its highest point yet. Twenty-five people are currently hospitalized in Manitoba with COVID-19, with six people in intensive care.
Possible exposures to COVID-19 have been reported at two Winnipeg schools - Ecole Charleswood School and St. John's Ravenscourt. Provincial health officials do not yet believe that the disease has spread within the school.
Within the Northern Health Region, 12 cases remain active - eight in the Shamattawa/York Factory/Tataskweyak/Split Lake district, two in the Bunibonibee/Oxford House/Manto Sipi/God's River/God's Lake district and one each in Thompson/Mystery Lake, Island Lake and in an "unknown district".
Saskatchewan reported 10 new cases Wednesday, with four in Saskatoon, three in Regina, one each in the central west, central east and south east zones and none in the north.
The province and the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) declared what it describes as a "multi-jurisdictional community transmitted outbreak" based out of Prince Albert. The outbreak centres around the Full Gospel Outreach worship centre and events hosted there from Sept. 14-Oct. 4.
"It is being declared an outbreak as it involves numerous individuals with close contacts from multiple areas across the province," reads an SHA announcement.
More than 100 people have been found through contact tracing from the events.
