Manitoba announced ~2,154 new cases of #COVID19 and 8 more deaths over the three days ending Monday, Dec. 27, 2021.
Active cases: 5,724
Total caseload: 75,717
Recovered: 68,615
Deaths: 1,378
Weekend daily counts:
Saturday: 785 (new record)
Sunday: 694
Monday: 675
The seven-day average daily #Covid19 case count in Manitoba is now 593. That is a new average running high. These case counts are likely under-representations, given the delay in test processing and the limited capacity to test everyone who has been exposed or is symptomatic.
Five-day Manitoba #COVID19 test-positivity rate: 19 per cent (new record)
Winnipeg rate: 21.2% (new record)
Tests completed Sunday: 2,542
1,463 Winnipeg
240 Southern
229 Prairie Mountain
176 Interlake-Eastern
46 Northern
Manitoba #COVID19 patients in hospital: 158 (up 23)
In ICU: 40
The latest Manitobans to succumb to #COVID19:
- A Southern man in his 20s
- A Southern man in his 30s
- A Winnipeg man in his 30s
- A Southern man in his 40s
- A Southern man in his 50s
- A Southern woman in her 60s
- A Southern man in his 60s
- A Prairie Mtn woman in her 90s