There are 203 new COVID-19 cases in Manitoba on Saturday and seven more people have died from the illness, the province’s online dashboard says.
That brings Manitoba’s total fatalities linked to the illness to 733.
Saturday marks the third straight day the province has reported a daily new case tally higher than 200, after the number of tests done and cases identified dropped over the holidays.
Manitoba’s five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate dipped again to 9.9 per cent, the dashboard says. That’s a slight decrease from 10.1 per cent on Friday.
There are now 313 coronavirus patients in hospital, with 37 of them in intensive care, it says. That’s a slight drop in overall hospitalizations from 315 on Friday, but a small increase from 35 patients in intensive care.
There were 2,181 COVID-19 tests done in the province on Friday, the dashboard says, bringing the total number of tests completed in Manitoba to 437,412.
The government posted on social media earlier Saturday that a full news release will be coming later in the afternoon because of technical issues.
The update comes a day after the government announced its public health orders banning most gatherings and the sale of non-essential items would be extended for two more weeks, following a spike in cases linked to holiday gatherings.
Manitoba has now identified 26,166 COVID-19 cases, the dashboard says. To date, 20,769 people are listed as having recovered, while another 4,664 cases are considered active — but health officials have said that number is still inflated because of a data entry backlog.
