Manitoba has 70 new COVID-19 cases and one more death on Wednesday, the province's online dashboard says. There are 28 new cases in the Winnipeg health region, 24 in the Southern Health region, 12 in the Prairie Mountain Health region, four in the Interlake-Eastern health region and two in the Northern Health region, according to the province's online update. The online data shows that the one death reported Wednesday was a person from the Southern Health region whose death is linked to an unspecified variant of concern. Of the 70 new cases reported Tuesday, 48 are in people who were not vaccinated against COVID-19 and 12 are in people who were partly vaccinated, the province's dashboard says. Manitoba's online variant dashboard says 23 more COVID-19 cases have been linked to more contagious coronavirus variants since the data was last updated on Tuesday.

Source: CBC News September 22, 2021 17:31 UTC