Manitoba health officials to give COVID-19, vaccine update
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Health officials with the Manitoba government will be providing a COVID-19 and vaccine update on Wednesday.
Health officials with the Manitoba government will be providing a COVID-19 and vaccine update on Wednesday.
Dr. Jazz Atwal, deputy chief provincial public health officer, and Dr. Joss Reimer, medical lead of the Vaccine Implementation Task Force, will be speaking at a virtual news conference at 12:30 p.m. CTV News Winnipeg will live-stream the event.
As of Tuesday, the province announced that hospitalizations of Manitobans with COVID-19 dipped below 700 patients.
Of the 697 people hospitalized with COVID, 530 have active cases of the virus.
Health officials also reported that there are 40 COVID-19 patients in Manitoba’s ICUs – 29 of whom have active cases.
On Tuesday, the province announced 413 new cases and two more deaths related to COVID-19, bringing the active cases to 18,960 and the death toll to 1,602.
Manitoba’s five-day test positivity rate is 27.3 per cent.
