203 new COVID-19 cases, 3 deaths reported in Manitoba on Thursday
CBC
There are 203 new COVID-19 cases in Manitoba on Thursday and three more people have died from the illness, the province's online coronavirus dashboard says.
Just over half of the new cases are among people who aren't fully immunized against COVID-19, the dashboard says.
The largest proportion of the new cases is in the Winnipeg health region, with 58 infections, followed by the Prairie Mountain Health region with 53 and the Southern Health region with 51.
There are also 28 new infections in the Northern Health Region and 13 in the Interlake-Eastern health region, the dashboard says.
There are now 145 people hospitalized with the illness in the province, down eight since Wednesday, with 35 of them in intensive care, up one.
The five-day provincial test positivity rate dropped to 6.1 per cent from 6.4 on Wednesday, when Manitoba completed 3,627 more COVID-19 tests.
The latest deaths bring Manitoba's total linked to the illness to 1,344. One of the deaths was someone from the Southern Health region, while the other two were people from Winnipeg, the dashboard says.
More details, including the ages and sexes of the people who died, are expected in the province's next COVID-19 news release on Friday.
Manitoba also reported 73 more COVID-19 cases that have now been linked to schools, with 64 among students and nine in staff members.
Seven more schools have now reported cases of the illness, the province's COVID-19 schools dashboard says.
There are now 1,623 active cases of the illness in Manitoba, while 66,347 people in the province have been deemed recovered.
More than half of the active cases are in people who haven't been fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
Manitobans who aren't fully immunized against the illness also make up 68 per cent of the people hospitalized with active COVID-19 and 96 per cent of those in ICU with active cases.
As of Thursday, 82.8 per cent of eligible Manitobans have gotten at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, while 77.8 per cent are fully vaccinated.
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