Manitoba reports 1,494 new COVID-19 cases, 5 deaths on New Year's Eve
CBC
Manitoba is reporting 1,494 new cases of COVID-19 and five deaths, the province said in a news release Friday afternoon.
It's the second consecutive day the province has surpassed 1,000 new cases in a single day, pushing the province's total reported cases past the 80,000-case mark since the pandemic began.
Winnipeg accounted for 860 of the new cases, with the Prairie Mountain, Interlake-Eastern, Southern and Northern health regions tallying 243, 164, 157 and 70 cases respectively.
Three of the deaths are from the Winnipeg health region – all women in their 70s, 80s and 90s, respectively. The other deaths are a man in his 50s from the Southern region and a woman in her 50s from the Northern region, according to the release.
The total number of deaths in the province has risen to 1,392.
The five-day test positivity rate in the province continues to increase, reaching 30.7 per cent on Friday, up from 27.3 per cent on Thursday. In Winnipeg, that rate jumped to 32.2 per cent, up from 26.2 per cent Wednesday.
There are 192 Manitobans hospitalized with COVID-19, which is an increase of two from Thursday. Thirty of those in hospital are in intensive care units, up one from a day earlier. Twenty-seven of those 30 patients are currently infected with the virus.
Outbreaks have been declared inside units CH4 and CH5 at The Children's Hospital of Winnipeg, as well as at the Actionmarguerite St. Joseph and the Saul and Claribel Simkin Centre personal care homes in Winnipeg.
The province says outbreaks have ended at five Winnipeg locations: Faith Academy Middle School, Westview School, École Margaret Underhill School, Donwood Assisted Living, Amber Meadow Retirement Home.
The outbreak at Village View Lodge assisted living in Plumas is also over.
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