COVID-19.Dr. Marcia Anderson, medical lead of the province’s pandemic response team, said Monday there were a number of probable contributing factors, including more crowded housing.
Manitoba reports 65 new COVID-19 cases, 1 additional death “These could be due to differences in housing status, income status, occupational risks, underlying chronic disease rates or other different experiences,” Anderson said.Anderson said the data was collected between March 31 and June 17, when Manitoba reported 18,808 individual cases of COVID-19.
Roughly 76 per cent of those cases had information recorded about race, ethnicity, and Indigeneity.She said the data shows those who self-identified as BIPOC were just over 21 per cent more likely to come down.