Two more people have died from COVID-19 in Manitoba, including one case linked to a cluster at a Brandon health-care facility that was declared an outbreak last month, provincial health officials announced Monday. The two people who died are a man from the Southern Health region and a woman from the Prairie Mountain Health region, both in their 80s. Public health officials are concerned about the rising number of daily new cases of COVID-19 in Winnipeg. There were three new cases in the Southern Health region, two in the Prairie Mountain Health region and one in the Interlake-Eastern health region. There have now been 1,608 cases of COVID-19 in Manitoba, with eight people currently hospitalized, including two in intensive care, and 18 deaths.

Source: CBC News September 21, 2020 16:26 UTC