Posted: Dec 21, 2020 12:14 PM CT | Last Updated: December 22, 2020
The Manitoba government expanded the criteria for COVID-19 vaccine recipients over the weekend, after the province secured enough doses for an additional 900 people this week.(Evan Mitsui/CBC)
Manitoba announced four deaths and 167 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, the lowest numbers in more than a month.
This is the first time since Nov. 3 that Manitoba's daily count of new cases has been below 200.
Manitoba also posted its lowest test-positivity rate in more than a month, at 11.5 per cent provincewide. Winnipeg's test-positivity rate dropped to 10.5 per cent.
"Our case numbers are down today, which is definitely a positive," Dr. Jazz Atwal, Manitoba's acting deputy chief public health officer, said in a news conference Monday.