There will be no update on COVID-19 number in Manitoba tomorrow (Friday) due to the New Years holiday.
187 new cases of COVID-19 were reported in Manitoba on Thursday along with 6 deaths.
Health officials also reported a confirmed case of COVID-19 at Ste. Rose School, and that the individual attended school on Thursday, Dec. 17 when they may have been infectious.
Premier Brian Pallister earlier this week called the eventual relaxation of some lockdown restrictions in the new year an “almost certainty”, but did not offer any further details about which restrictions might be relaxed, and when.
Code red lockdown measures are currently set to expire January 8.
Health officials have warned gatherings over the holidays could reverse some of the recent progress made in the province with regards to case numbers. Dr. Jazz Atwal explains when we might see the impact of holiday gatherings on our daily case numbers, saying “if there were a lot of individuals who potentially were exposed, or doing things they shouldn’t have been doing around Dec. 24, 25, 26 — probably about 7 to 14 days afterwards we’d start to see an increase in cases related to that event.”
Today’s COVID Numbers In Manitoba
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 11.2% provincially and 10.4% in Winnipeg. The total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba is now 24,700.
There are 4,505 active cases and 19,528 individuals who have recovered from COVID-19 in Manitoba.
There are 247 people in hospital with active COVID-19, and 90 people in hospital who are no longer infectious but continue to require care (337 hospitalizations in total).
There are 33 people in intensive care units (ICU) with active COVID-19, and four people who are no longer infectious but continue to require critical care (37 ICU patients in total).
The total number of deaths due to COVID-19 is 667.
Today’s COVID-19 data shows:
• 18 cases in the Interlake–Eastern health region
• 38 cases in the Northern health region
• seven cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region
• 33 cases in the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region
• 91 cases in the Winnipeg health region
According to the province’s data, there are active cases in the following Parkland health districts: Dauphin (5), Riding Mountain (4), Swan River (1), Porcupine Mountain (91), Duck Mountain (2), Asessippi (3), Little Saskatchewan (4), and Agassiz Mountain (9). Brandon has 36 active cases.
In the Interlake, the Eriksdale/Ashern health district has 34 active cases, while Fisher/Peguis has 36.
Public health officials advise six additional deaths in people with COVID-19 have been reported today including:
• a female in her 70s from the Prairie Mountain Health region
• a male in his 80s from the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region
• a female in her 70s from the Winnipeg health region
• a female in her 80s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to outbreak at the Convalescent Home of Winnipeg
• a female in her 80s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to the outbreak at the Charleswood Care Centre
• a female in her 90s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to the outbreak at the Poseidon Care Centre
