Nineteen more people with COVID-19 have died, including two men in their 20s.

There are 81 new hospitalizations, bringing the total number of people in the hospital to 378. According to the provincial dashboard, 341 of those people have active cases.

There are 39 people in intensive care with all but one of those people having active cases.

Hospitalizations by health region include:

  • 228 in Winnipeg
  • 52 in Prairie Mountain
  • 51 in Southern
  • 26 in Interlake-Eastern
  • 21 in Northern

There were 19 deaths recorded over the weekend, bringing the total to 1,427.

Deaths include:

  • a female in her 80s from the Interlake-Eastern health region, linked to an unspecified variant of concern (reported Saturday)
  • a female in her 50s from the Southern Health-Santé Sud region, linked to an unspecified variant of concern (reported Saturday)
  • a female in her 90s from the Southern Health-Santé Sud region (reported Saturday)
  • a male in his 20s from the Winnipeg health region (reported Saturday)
  • a female in her 30s from the Winnipeg health region (reported Saturday)
  • a female in her 70s from the Interlake-Eastern health region (reported Sunday)
  • a female in her 50s from the Winnipeg health region (reported Sunday)
  • a male in his 50s from the Winnipeg health region (reported Sunday)
  • a male in his 60s from the Winnipeg health region (reported Sunday)
  • a female in her 70s from the Winnipeg health region (reported Sunday)
  • a female in her 80s from the Winnipeg health region (reported Sunday)
  • a female in her 80s from the Winnipeg health region (reported Sunday)
  • a male in his 50s from Prairie Mountain Health (reported Monday)
  • a female in her 40s from the Southern Health-Santé Sud region (reported Monday)
  • a female in her 40s from the Southern Health-Santé Sud region (reported Monday)
  • a male in his 20s from the Southern Health-Santé Sud region (reported Monday)
  • a male in his 50s the Southern Health-Santé Sud region (reported Monday)
  • a female in her 50s from the Winnipeg health region (reported Monday)
  • a male in his 60s from the Winnipeg health region (reported Monday)

 

Provincial stats from last week

The Government of Manitoba says last week saw 201 new hospitalizations, up 51.1 per cent from last week.

Intensive care rates are up by 5.3 per cent with 20 new cases.

They say there was an average of  1,814.7 new cases per day last week, totalling 12,703 cases. This is a 6.9 per cent increase.

 

New testing regulations

Only symptomatic people and those being advised to by Public Health are being asked to go for COVID-19 testing. Most will be rapid tests, with those having a higher risk of severe illness, and some people who test positive on a rapid tests getting PCR tests.

 

New outbreaks

There are outbreaks being declared at:

  • Vista Park Lodge, Winnipeg
  • Neepawa Health Centre
  • Misericordia Health Centre, C2
  • Health Sciences Centre, GD3, Winnipeg
  • Thompson General Hospital, obstetrics and neonatal unit, Thompson
  • Donwood Manor personal care home, first floor, Winnipeg
  • Brandon Regional Health Centre, 400 medical unit, Brandon
  • Grace Hospital, 3 south, Winnipeg

 

 

New cases

Manitoba has reached more than 100,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases, with close to one-third of those cases being active.

There are 7,083 new COVID-19 cases that have been added to the total over the weekend, with 2,383 of those cases being announced Monday. There are now 101,933 total confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Manitoba.

"The backlog of COVID-19 tests awaiting processing has been cleared," a news release from the province says.

There are 31,618 active cases and 68,888 recoveries.

Manitoba's five-day test rate is 49 per cent. The dashboard says 4,397 tests were completed on Sunday.

 

New Monday cases for each health region include:

  • 1,484 in Winnipeg
  • 371 in Prairie Mountain
  • 318 on Southern
  • 160 in Interlake-Eastern
  • 150 in Nothern

 

Vaccine updates

A Pfizer shortage is leading the province to direct people getting first, second, and third COVID-19 vaccines towards Moderna, leaving the available vaccines for people aged 12-29.

To date, 49.7 per cent of all children aged five to 11 have received their first COVID-19 vaccine.

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