COVID-19 ICU admissions continue to push Manitoba’s health-care system to the limit as 232 new cases and three deaths were reported Tuesday.The province’s latest COVID-19 victims are all from the Winnipeg area and include a woman in her 80s and a man in his 60s, both linked to the B.1.1.7 strain, first identified in the United Kingdom, as well as a woman in her 50s.
COVID-19 variants given new names using Greek alphabet, WHO says Their deaths bring Manitoba’s COVID-19 death toll to 1,056.Health officials say the the majority of Tuesday’s new cases — 168 — come from the Winnipeg Health region.The remaining new cases include 36 in the Southern Health region, 13 found in the Northern Health region, 10 reported in the Interlake-Eastern.