Manitoba health officials give COVID-19 update – Winnipeg

Manitobans will get a stay replace on the province’s efforts towards COVID-19 Tuesday.

Dr. Jazz Atwal, Manitoba’s deputy chief public well being officer, has scheduled a digital assembly with media for 12:30 p.m. World Information will stream the occasion stay on this story.

Manitoba’s new day by day case rely has been climbing in latest days.

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Northern communities taking precaution after rising COVID-19 instances

Well being officers reported 130 new instances and two deaths Friday.

The province reported 132 new instances Thursday, Manitoba’s highest single-day whole of latest COVID-19 instances since June 19.

Well being officers haven’t been giving COVID-19 updates on weekends, so knowledge for Saturday, Sunday and Monday can be anticipated Tuesday.

Questions on COVID-19? Listed here are some issues you must know:

Symptoms can embody fever, cough and problem respiration — similar to a chilly or flu. Some folks can develop a extra extreme sickness. Folks most vulnerable to this embody older adults and folks with extreme power medical circumstances like coronary heart, lung or kidney illness. If you happen to develop signs, contact public health authorities.

To prevent the virus from spreading, consultants suggest frequent handwashing and coughing into your sleeve. Additionally they suggest minimizing contact with others, staying residence as a lot as potential and sustaining a distance of two metres from different folks in case you exit. In conditions the place you may’t maintain a protected distance from others, public well being officers suggest using a non-medical face masks or protecting to stop spreading the respiratory droplets that may carry the virus. In some provinces and municipalities throughout the nation, masks or face coverings are actually necessary in indoor public areas.

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