COVID-19 hospitalizations up 30, 3 deaths reported in Manitoba
CBC
Manitoba is reporting 30 more patients in hospital with COVID-19 and three new deaths from the illness on the province's online data dashboard Wednesday.
There are now 436 patients in hospital with COVID-19 — up from 406 on Tuesday.
The number of COVID-19 patients receiving intensive care has increased two, from 21 to 23.
In total, there are 94 patients in Manitoba ICUs, including both COVID and non-COVID patients, up from 90 on Tuesday.
Two of the deaths are in the Winnipeg health region and one is in the Prairie Mountain Health region.
The total number of deaths linked to COVID-19 in Manitoba is now 1,703.
There were 210 new lab-confirmed cases reported Wednesday. That number is a believed to be significantly lower than actual new cases because the province limits access to PCR testing and doesn't track rapid test results.
There are 76 new cases in the Winnipeg health region, 48 in the Northern Health Region, 37 in the Prairie Mountain Health region, 25 in the Interlake-Eastern health region and 24 in the Southern Health region.
On Tuesday, 1,132 PCR tests were done.
The five-day provincial test positivity rate is 13 per cent, down from 13.9 per cent the day before.
As of Wednesday, 86.3 per cent of eligible Manitobans have at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and 82.3 per cent have at least two doses, the vaccine dashboard says. Just over 44 per cent have had a booster shot.
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