Thread by @bkives

Manitoba announced 487 new cases of #COVID19 and 10 more deaths on Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020.

Active cases: 9,024*
Total caseload: 16,118
Recovered: 6,804
Deaths: 290

*Inflated due to data-entry backlog.

One of the deaths is a boy under the age of 10.

Manitoba #COVID19 patients in hospital: 327 (new record, up 5)

In ICU: 44* (down one)

*Understated. The official ICU count does not include long-term COVID patients Shared Health no longer considers contagious.

Five-day Manitoba #COVID19 test-positivity rate: 14.2 per cent
Tests completed Friday: 2,640

The latest Manitobans to succumb to #COVID19:

• A Winnipeg boy under the age of 10
• A Wpg woman in her 60s
• An Interlake-Eastern man in his 60s
• A Prairie Mountain man in his 70s (Gilbert Plains PCH outbreak)
• A Wpg woman in her 80s (Heritage Lodge outbreak)

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• A Winnipeg woman in her 80s
• A Southern woman in her 80s
• A Prairie Mountain man in his 80s (Fairview Home outbreak)
• A Prairie Mountain woman in her 90s (Gilbert Plains PCH outbreak)
• A Winnipeg man in his 90s (Park Manor outbreak)

Regional breakdown of new Manitoba #COVID19 cases:

• 307 Winnipeg
• 104 Southern
• 38 Northern
• 23 Interlake–Eastern
• 15 Prairie Mountain

New Manitoba #COVID19 outbreaks:

- Health Sciences Centre, GD4 unit, Winnipeg
- Manitoba Developmental Centre, Portage la Prairie

Outbreaks declared over:

- Aborgate School, La Broquerie
- Reston School, Reston

The boy under the age of 10 is the first child to die of #COVID19 in Manitoba and the youngest person to die of the disease in the province.

Second-youngest, in their 30s. The reported death of a man in his 20s was an error.