Four COVID-19 deaths, 46 hospitalized: Manitoba weekly report
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A child under age 10 was one of the seven Manitobans to be admitted to hospital intensive care units due of COVID-19 last week, provincial data shows.
Two children under 10 are also counted among the 46 Manitobans hospitalized last week with the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. They are among nine children ages nine or younger to test positive for COVID-19 between June 26 and July 2, according to Manitoba’s weekly epidemiological report, released Thursday.
Those children account for 7.2 per cent of recorded cases of the virus last week, while the highest proportion of cases were among Manitobans in their 70s and 80s.
Overall, 46 Manitobans were hospitalized with COVID-19 last week, and four additional deaths were announced. Hospitalizations have declined every week since the beginning of May. At the time, there were more than 100 admissions per week.
Although hospitalizations are decreasing, Manitoba’s test positivity rate is creeping up. It was at 11.5 per cent, compared with 10.9 per cent the previous week.
Last week, there were 244 people tested for COVID-19 daily, compared with 252 in the previous week. The provincial count doesn’t capture the majority of positive COVID-19 results, because rapid-antigen test results aren’t tracked.
Along with fewer tests being administered, there’s been a general decline in the presence of COVID-19 Winnipeg’s wastewater, according to data from the Public Health Agency of Canada, current as of June 20.
In a COVID-19 modelling report produced by the federal public health agency June 24, the agency used the wastewater data to predict COVID-19 transmission in Winnipeg “should remain low in the next few weeks.”