COVID-19 by the numbers By: Winnipeg Free Press Posted: Last Modified: Updates

Editor's Note: As of April 12, 2023, our data team is no longer updating these infographics. We have provided links to the data source for each chart below, for readers who wish to check the latest figures.  

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Editor’s Note: As of April 12, 2023, our data team is no longer updating these infographics. We have provided links to the data source for each chart below, for readers who wish to check the latest figures.  

The data that informs the charts below — cases, hospitalizations, ICU admissions and deaths — are available in the province’s weekly respiratory surveillance report, which is currently updated every Friday. You can find those reports here.

 

Wastewater surveillance

Health Canada’s wastewater dashboard shows the concentration of COVID-19 in wastewater samples from different sites. This data can be found on Health Canada’s website, here.

The green line shows the seven-day rolling average of the viral load for each site. Health Canada calculates the seven-day rolling average by averaging the viral loads from each day with the previous six days.

An ongoing increase or decrease in the viral load is more reliable for indicating trends. If the wastewater signals are high or increasing, this may indicate a high level of COVID in the community.

The chart below shows wastewater surveillance in Winnipeg as reported from April 2021 — when data first became available in Winnipeg — to March 30, 2023.

 

Vaccine uptake

The chart below shows the cumulative percentage of all people in Manitoba who have received a COVID-19 vaccine, by vaccination status.

The data that informs this chart is available in the province’s weekly respiratory surveillance report, which is updated every Friday. You can find those reports here.

 

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Updated on Tuesday, April 11, 2023 5:10 PM CDT: Adds note indicating charts are no longer being updated.

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