<\/p>\n One new case of COVID-19 has been identified in Manitoba as of Friday, connected with an outbreak\u00a0at the Brandon office of a trucking business.<\/p>\n The total number of people infected with the illness\u00a0connected with Paul’s Hauling in Brandon is now eight, health officials announced during their daily COVID-19 briefing.<\/p>\n Chief Provincial Public Health Officer Dr. Brent\u00a0Roussin said six of those cases are employees at the business and two are close contacts of those employees.<\/p>\n The first case of COVID-19 at the trucking company was contracted through community spread, Roussin said.\u00a0<\/p>\n He said about 11 per cent of cases of the illness in Manitoba so far could not be linked to travel or a known case of COVID-19. In the last week, there have been no new cases of the illness linked to community spread.<\/p>\n On Friday morning, a spokesperson for Sobeys confirmed an employee at the chain’s\u00a0Safeway gas bar on 18th\u00a0Street N. in Brandon tested positive for COVID-19<\/a>. The employee last worked on April 30.<\/p>\n Roussin would not comment on\u00a0whether that case\u00a0was related to the outbreak at Paul’s Hauling.<\/p>\n The new case at the Brandon workplace was the only additional COVID-19 case announced in Manitoba on Friday.<\/p>\n The update brings the total number of cases identified in Manitoba to 284, 30 of which are considered active.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Five people with COVID-19 are in hospital in Manitoba; none are in intensive care.<\/p>\n Seven people with COVID-19 in the province have died, and 247 have recovered.<\/p>\n An outbreak of COVID-19 at Winnipeg Health Sciences Centre in March has been declared over by infection prevention and control officials, said Manitoba Shared Health Chief Nursing Officer Lanette Siragusa.<\/p>\n That outbreak was detected in a medicine unit on March 30 and forced at least 70 staff to self-isolate.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Since then, two rounds of incubation periods have passed and most staff are back at work, Siragusa said. There are still a few people recovering at home.<\/p>\n Strategies like restricting visitors in hospitals and restricting patient movement within that medicine unit helped contain the spread of the virus, said Siragusa.<\/p>\n Siragusa said anyone hoping to send Mother’s Day gifts to people in hospitals or personal care homes should check with the facility about what is allowed to be brought in.<\/p>\n She recommended sticking with gifts like food and clothes, and doing virtual visits as much as possible.<\/p>\n On Thursday, 543 laboratory tests for the illness were done, bringing the total number of COVID-19 tests completed in Manitoba to 29,343.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.5556466.1588706199!\/cpImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/16x9_780\/virus-outbreak-britain.jpg\")
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