107 new COVID-19 cases, 2 deaths reported in Manitoba Thursday
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Manitoba public health officials say there are 107 new COVID-19 cases and two deaths on Thursday.
The deaths announced Thursday were a man in his 40s from the Southern Health region linked to an unspecified variant of concern, and a woman in her 50s from the Northern Health Region, also linked to an unspecified variant of concern, says a news release from the province.
This brings the number of people who have died in Manitoba from COVID-19 to 1,226.
There are 45 new cases in the Northern Health Region, 23 in the Southern Health region, 21 in the Winnipeg health region, 10 in the Prairie Mountain Health region and eight in the Interlake-Eastern health region.
Of the new cases, 60 are in people who weren't vaccinated, eight are in people only partly vaccinated and 39 are in people who are fully vaccinated, the province's online dashboard says.
As of Thursday, 82.2 per cent of the eligible population in Manitoba has two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, while 85.9 per cent has at least one dose.
There are 93 people in hospital with COVID-19, including 17 in intensive care. That's a decrease of just one patient from the day before.