WINNIPEG–.
The Manitoba government revealed 42 brand-new cases of COVID-19 Saturday, marking the highest single day leap in the province given that the pandemic started.
Majority of them are in the Prairie Mountain Health Region, where brand-new constraints will enter impact next week.
Twenty-four cases were announced in the health region Saturday.
Starting Monday masks will be necessary in public locations and group sizes can be no bigger than ten in Brandon and the surrounding locations.
The federal government elevated the location to code orange, after a spike in cases in southwestern Manitoba. It becomes part of the province’s brand-new colour-coded system to try to consist of the spread of COVID-19
In a news on Saturday, public health authorities also revealed 16 new infections in the Southern Health Region and 2 in Winnipeg.
There are 290 active cases in the province, with 6 individuals in health center and a single person in intensive care.
Twelve individuals have died from the coronavirus in Manitoba, while 570 individuals have recovered.
Saturday’s upgrade brings the total variety of COVID-19 cases in the province to 872.
The 5 day test positivity rate is 1.8 percent.
The province did 1,849 laboratory tests on Friday. Since early February, 124,140 tests were completed.
A new COVID-19 testing website will be up and running next Tuesday in Winnipeg at 2735 Pembina Hwy. It will be open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. seven days a week and accepting people on a walk-in basis.
The Fort Garry site will no longer provide COVID-19 tests once the brand-new area on Pembina Hwy. opens.
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