34 more patients in Manitoba hospitals with COVID-19
CBC
There are 34 more COVID-19 patients in hospital in Manitoba on Friday, the province says in a news release.
The overnight increase brings the total number of people hospitalized with the illness to 297.
That includes 34 people in intensive care units, the release said, up one since Thursday.
Manitoba reported 3,265 more confirmed cases of COVID-19, another record for the province, though the true number of infections is likely eight to 10 times higher than what is reported each day, Dr. Jazz Atwal, the province's deputy chief public health officer, said on Wednesday.
With the highly contagious Omicron coronavirus variant causing a spike in cases that's overwhelmed Manitoba's testing capacity, many cases aren't being reported, so daily case counts are no longer the most accurate reflection of the impact of COVID-19 in the province.
Manitoba's five-day test positivity rate rose to 44.4 per cent, the release said, up from 43.5 on Thursday. In Winnipeg, that rate is now 52.6 per cent, up from 48 per cent when it was last updated, on Wednesday.
The province completed 5,389 more COVID-19 tests on Thursday, the release said.
No new deaths linked to the illness were announced on Friday, but more details about six deaths reported a day earlier on the province's dashboard have been announced.
The deaths include two men in their 50s from the Interlake-Eastern health region, with one who died after getting an unspecified coronavirus variant, the release said.
Two men in their 60s from the Southern Health region also died, with one having contracted the Delta variant.
The other two deaths reported on Thursday were a man and a woman, both in their 80s and from the Winnipeg health region, the release said.
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