Manitoba again sets new daily COVID-19 case count record with more than 900 cases Wednesday

Manitoba has once again set a new daily COVID-19 case count record, a day after setting the old record.

Manitoba has once again set a new daily COVID-19 case count record, a day after setting the old record.

The province recorded 947 new cases on Wednesday, bringing the active case count to 7,488.

Of the new cases, 667 are in Winnipeg, 99 in the Prairie Mountain Health Region, 91 in the Interlake-Eastern Health Region, 82 in the Southern Health Region, and eight cases in the Northern Health Region.

Officials said 143 of the cases were people who are not fully vaccinated.

The five-day test positivity rate is 24.2 per cent in Manitoba and 26.2 per cent in Winnipeg.

One new death was also announced, which means the death toll now sits at 1,384.

Wednesday's death was a woman in her 50s from Southern Health.