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Manitoba’s coronavirus curve stays flat with another day of no new cases

This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, orange, emerging from the surface of cells, green, cultured in the lab. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-NIAID-RML via AP. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-NIAID-RML via AP

Manitoba’s curve is still more of a straight line as no new COVID-19 cases were reported Tuesday.

There have been only three new cases announced in the province in the past two weeks, and none in the past four days.

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Manitoba last saw two cases reported Friday, in relation to the case of a south Winnipeg Walmart worker who tested positive for the virus.

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