Five new COVID-19 cases linked to Hutterite colony

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After 13 consecutive days with no COVID-19 cases in July, Manitoba has recorded 11 cases over the past four days.

On Friday, public health officials reported five persons living on a Hutterite colony in the Interlake-Eastern health region had tested positive for the coronavirus.

They include a man and woman in their 60s, a man and woman in their 30s and a woman in her 20s.

The province did not provide any further information about the new cases. It said it would inform people of any public health risk as it continues to investigate the cases.

The latest infections bring the total number of lab-confirmed positive and probable positive cases in Manitoba to 336.

The current five-day rate for positive tests in the province is now 0.43 per cent. Public health officials consider any rate below 1.5 per cent as low.

A total of 844 laboratory tests were completed on Thursday bringing the total number since early February to 73,885.

There are currently no Manitobans in hospital with the coronavirus. There are 11 active cases.

Manitoba reported five new cases on Tuesday and another on Thursday.

One of the five reported cases Tuesday was classified as an "unknown acquisition," leading officials to conclude it was the result of community transmission.

Officials first said that case was a woman in her 20s from the Southern Health region. They later clarified that it was a female between the ages of 10 and 19.

Larry Kusch
Legislature reporter

Larry Kusch didn’t know what he wanted to do with his life until he attended a high school newspaper editor’s workshop in Regina in the summer of 1969 and listened to a university student speak glowingly about the journalism program at Carleton University in Ottawa.

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