One new case was reported in the Flin Flon/Snow Lake/Cranberry Portage/Sherridon district, along with two recoveries from the disease. The main locale of recent northern cases has been The Pas/OCN/Kelsey, where 50 people - including six new people in the last day - have active cases of COVID-19. The remote Island Lake district has the most active cases of COVID-19 of any northern district at 69, but numbers there are declining. Case numbers in remote districts like Island Lake can also be inflated and outdated, due to delays in cases in the districts being marked by provincial officials as active and recovered .
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An organization connecting regional health authorities says hospitals are continuing an unprecedented trend of critically high hospitalizations.
Shared Health says more than half a dozen people were admitted to ICU in one day. Seven COVID patients were admitted to ICU in a 24-hour period ending midday Monday, continuing an unprecedented trend that has seen admission numbers well above normal. These admissions are in addition to non-COVID patients who require intensive care, Shared Health says in a statement.
Three of those patients were sent to Ontario ICU units. On the same day, two Manitobans were returned to Manitoba to receive hospital care.
By Matthew Dekker
Public health officials advise three new deaths in people with COVID-19 have been reported today:
• a female in her 50s from the Winnipeg health region;
• a male in his 60s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to the B.1.1.7 variant of concern; and
• a female in her 80s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to the B.1.1.7 variant of concern.
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 12 per cent provincially and 13.5 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30 a.m. today, 232 new cases of the virus have been identified. However, six cases have been removed due to data correction. This brings the net-new number of cases today to 226 and the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 51,316.