947 new cases of COVID-19 reported in Manitoba, marking yet another pandemic high
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Manitoba reports 947 new cases of COVID-19 and one death on Wednesday, the province said in a news release.
That shatters the previous record of 825 set Tuesday.
Most of the new cases are in the Winnipeg health region, which posted 667 new cases.
There are also 99 new cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region, 91 in the Interlake-Eastern health region, 82 in the Southern Health region and eight in the Northern Health Region.
Dr. Brent Roussin, Manitoba's chief provincial public health officer, said in an online news conference there's a backlog of about 10,700 tests that haven't yet been screened for COVID-19.
"The numbers we report are definitely an underestimate of the amount of transmission we're seeing right now," he said.
The province is also reporting the death of woman in her 50s from the Southern Health region.
There are now 1,384 deaths related to COVID-19. As of Wednesday, there are 7,488 active cases and 68,613 people have recovered from the virus.
A total of 183 Manitobans are currently in hospital with COVID-19, up from 164 on Tuesday.
Of those, 29 people are in intensive care units in the province, up by two from the last report.
The five-day test positivity rate is 24.2 per cent provincially, up from 21.9 per cent on Tuesday. In Winnipeg the rate is 26.2 per cent.
On Tuesday, 3,852 COVID-19 tests were done.
Wednesday's update comes after the province reported a record-high 825 new cases of COVID-19 and five more deaths on Tuesday, topping the previous pandemic records set on Christmas Day (785) and Christmas Eve (742).
Just over a week after Manitoba introduced capacity restrictions to stem the tide of COVID-19 cases, Roussin and Premier Heather Stefanson announced the restrictions would tighten slightly on Tuesday.
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