Three days of data shared Sunday show 524 new COVID cases, 28 more deaths

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After a holiday hiatus, Public Health Manitoba announced hundreds of new cases of COVID-19 and more than two-dozen deaths as a result of the virus over the Christmas weekend.

Between 9:30 a.m. Dec. 24 and 9:30 a.m. Sunday, the province recorded 524 new cases of the virus and 28 deaths.

Of those cases, 245 were reported in Winnipeg, 101 cases were recorded in the Northern health region, 96 cases were reported in the Interlake-Eastern health region, 58 cases in the Southern health-Sante Sud region and 24 in the Prairie Mountain health region.

More than half of those deaths were connected to outbreaks at the province’s personal care homes, including 17 deaths at care homes around Winnipeg.

The deaths included a man in his 60s, one in his 80s and a woman in her 70s linked to an outbreak at Poseidon Care Centre; one woman in her 70s and one in her 80s from Charleswood Care Centre; a man in his 70s, a man in his 80s, a man in his 90s and a woman in her 100s connected to an outbreak at Convalescent Home of Winnipeg; a man in his 80s and woman in her 90s from Holy Family Home; and one woman in her 90s and one in her 100s from St. Norbert Personal Care Home, all in Winnipeg.

One man in his 80s died in connection to an outbreak at Oakview Place Personal Care Home, and another man in his 80s died in connection to the outbreak at Park Manor Care Home; a woman in her 90s died, linked to an outbreak at Saul and Claribel Simkin Centre; and a man in his 70s died in connection to an outbreak at Fred Douglas Lodge.

In homes outside of Winnipeg, a man in his 80s died, linked to an outbreak at Kin Place in Oakbank, and a woman in her 90s died in an outbreak at George Colon Memorial home in Bunibonibee Cree Nation in the Northern health region.

The other deaths recorded over the weekend included a woman in her 30s, one woman in her 60s, a man in his 60s and a man in his 80s from the Winnipeg health region; a man in his 60s and man in his 70s from the Northern health region; a woman in her 80s and man in his 90s from the Southern Health-Sante Sud health region, and a woman in her 90s from the Southern Health-Sante Sud region linked to an outbreak at Portage District General Hospital.

As of Sunday, a total of 645 Manitobans had died as a result of COVID-19.

Public Health recently declared an outbreak at the Boyne Lodge Personal Care Home in Carman, which has been moved to critical (red) on the pandemic response system.

The total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba was 24,145 on Sunday. Of those cases, 4,488 are currently listed as active, while 19,012 are listed as recovered.

The province’s five-day test positivity rate notched upwards to 12.1 per cent Sunday from 10.6 per cent on Thursday. The test positivity rate in Winnipeg was 12.5 per cent.

Laboratory testing numbers indicated 4,238 tests were completed between Dec. 24 and 26, bringing the total number of tests since February to 415,859.

The number of COVID patients in intensive care units decreased over the weekend — there were 31 people in ICU with active COVID-19 and four people in ICU who were no longer infectious but continued to require care as a result of the virus for a total of 35 ICU patients, down from 41 on Thursday.

There were 252 people in hospital with active COVID-19 infections and 89 COVID patients in hospital who were no longer infectious but continued to require care.

Outbreaks were declared over at Misericordia Health Centre’s Transitional Care Unit and at the Headingley Correctional Centre.

Meantime, the province held no immunization clinics over the weekend, leaving a total 2,177 vaccinations doled out since the first vaccine doses arrived in the province earlier this month.

The next immunization clinics are scheduled at the University of Manitoba’s Rady Faculty of Health Sciences between Dec. 29 and 31. The province said a total of 1,266 appointments have been booked for these three days for health-care workers who meet eligibility criteria.

Further immunization clinics will take place at the RBC Convention Centre Jan. 4 and 5 — approximately 360 appointments remained available Sunday.

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