Manitoba health officials are reporting a slightly higher number of cases today with 208 new infections, along with 12 deaths.
Two of the deaths are in the Prairie Mountain Health region – a man in his 60’s, and a woman in her 90’s at Fairview Place Care Home in Brandon. The number of deaths in the province is 717.
A list of the most recent deaths due to COVID-19 in Manitoba can be found at the bottom of this article.
Public health officials advise a COVID-19 outbreak has been declared at the McCreary/Alonsa Health Centre in McCreary. The site has been moved to Critical (red) on the Pandemic Response System. No other details have been made available at this time.
Today’s COVID-19 data shows:
• nine cases in the Interlake–Eastern health region
• 60 cases in the Northern health region
• 17 cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region
• 17 cases in the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region
• 105 cases in the Winnipeg health region
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 9.9 percent provincially and 10.5 percent in Winnipeg.
Of the 25,742 cases province-wide, 4,506 are active and 20,519 people have recovered from COVID-19.
There are 228 people in hospital with active COVID-19 and 91 people in hospital who are no longer infectious but continue to require care (319 total hospitalizations).
There are 31 people in intensive care with active COVID-19 and four people who are no longer infectious but continue to receive critical care (35 total ICU patients).
According to the province’s data, there are active cases in the following Parkland health districts: Dauphin (6), Riding Mountain (1), Swan River (2), Porcupine Mountain (74), Duck Mountain (2), Asessippi (5), Little Saskatchewan (6), Whitemud (2), and Agassiz Mountain (16). Brandon has 38 active cases.
In the Interlake, the Eriksdale/Ashern health district has 48 active cases, while Fisher/Peguis has 43.
Personal Care Home Visitation Shelters
Personal care home residents will soon be able to welcome loved ones for visits in the province’s new "COVIsitation spaces", which are being installed at 125 personal care homes (PCH) and other sites across the province.
During Manitoba’s code red restrictions, a maximum of one visitor and one PCH resident will be allowed at a time.
The province says that care homes without a "COVIsitation shelter" will have designated visitation rooms. Visits will be by appointment only, and masks will be mandatory for residents and visitors.
More details will be available from individual care homes in the coming days.
