128 new COVID-19 cases, 2 deaths reported in Manitoba Wednesday
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There are 128 new COVID-19 cases and two deaths in Manitoba on Wednesday, the provincial coronavirus data website says.
That brings the number of people who have died from the virus in the province to 1,251.
Public health officials gave an update this afternoon on COVID-19 in Manitoba and the province's vaccination efforts as case numbers continue to rise.
The Winnipeg health region has highest number of new cases Wednesday, with 40.
The Northern Health region has the next highest number with 33, followed by the Southern Health region with 29, the Prairie Mountain Health region with 17, and the Interlake-Eastern health region with nine.
The number of people in hospital with COVID-19 is up again, to 106 patients on Wednesday. That includes 23 people in intensive care.
The total number of people in hospital passed 100 for the first time since late July on Tuesday, when there were 104 COVID-19 patients in hospital.
The five-day test positivity rate is 4.9 per cent, down slightly from five the day before.
The province will start providing regional five-day test positivity rates on Friday, Dr. Jazz Atwal, the province's deputy chief public health officer, said during a news conference Wednesday.
Of the new cases announced Wednesday, 75 were in people who were not vaccinated at all, five were in people only partly vaccinated and 48 were in fully vaccinated people.
As of Wednesday, 87 per cent of eligible Manitobans have received one dose of a coronavirus vaccine and 83.9 per cent have both, the provincial vaccine dashboard says.
The province also identified 34 more cases of variants of concern on its online variant dashboard.
Almost all were of an unspecified variant, while two were listed as the B.1.617.2, or delta, variant.
On Tuesday, the province announced 127 new COVID-19 cases and one death.
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