Manitoba announced 1,494* new cases of #COVID19 and 5 more deaths on Friday, Dec. 31, 2021.
Active cases: 9,924**
Total caseload: 80,096
Recovered: 68,780
Deaths: 1,392
*Understated due to testing capacity issues
**Overstated due to backlog in redesignating active cases
Manitoba #COVID19 patients in hospital: 192 (up 2)
In ICU: 30 (up 1 from Thursday dashboard, but Siragusa said 30 yesterday)
Total patients in ICU (COVID and non-COVID): Not available yet (96 on Thursday)
Five-day Manitoba #COVID19 test-positivity rate: 30.7 per cent* (up 3.4 percentage points)
Tests completed Thursday: 4,343
*Inflated due to screening at testing sites
The latest 8 Manitobans to succumb to #COVID19:
- A Northern woman in her 50s
- A Southern man in his 50s
- A Winnipeg woman in her 70s
- A Winnipeg man in his 70s
- A Southern man in his 80s
- A Winnipeg man in his 80s
- A Winnipeg woman in her 80s
- A Winnipeg woman in her 90s