Manitoba health officials are announcing 118 new COVID-19 cases and 4 more deaths today.
Three of today’s deaths are in Winnipeg, and one is in the Northern Health region.
Prairie Mountain Health has provided an update on the situation at the Dauphin hospital after an outbreak was declared there last Friday.
After an outbreak was declared on Jan. 12 at St. Pauls Personal Care Home in Dauphin, the province is now reporting one case has been identified - which is a staff member.
Today’s new cases are from the following health regions:
• 11 cases in the Interlake–Eastern health region
• 46 cases in the Northern health region
• seven cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region
• nine cases in the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region and
• 45 cases in the Winnipeg health region
There have been a total of 27,629 cases of the virus province-wide. The number of deaths is 773.
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 10.6 percent provincially and 7.3 percent in Winnipeg.
Manitoba has a total of 3,108 active cases and 23,748 recoveries.
There are 135 people in hospital with active COVID-19 and 154 in hospital who are no longer infectious but require care (289 total hospitalizations).
There are 23 people in intensive care with active COVID-19 and 12 people who are no longer infectious that still need 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), Porcupine Mountain (54), Duck Mountain (6), Asessippi (5), Little Saskatchewan (3), Whitemud (1), and Agassiz Mountain (40). Brandon has 66 active cases.
In the Interlake, the Eriksdale/Ashern health district has 66 active cases, while Fisher/Peguis has 54.
With the current code red restrictions set to expire on Friday, Jan. 22, Manitoba officials are calling on the public to share their thoughts on which restrictions should be relaxed or maintained. You can fill out the survey online at Engagemb.ca.
Manitoba has opened its second COVID-19 immunization site today at Brandon’s Keystone Centre.
Prairie Mountain Health asks that people do not call the Brandon Keystone Centre directly for any information regarding the COVID vaccination program. An internal confidential phone number has been provided to those staff groups that are eligible for the vaccine.
For a list of who is eligible for the vaccine, click here.
