Province reports eight COVID deaths Friday
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This article was published 21/01/2022 (1520 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
The province reported on Friday that eight more Manitobans have died due to COVID-19, bringing the province’s death rate from the virus to 1,492 people.
There were seven deaths in Winnipeg and one in Interlake-Eastern, according to Friday’s COVID-19 bulletin.
An outbreak has been declared at the Brandon Regional Health Centre’s 300 surgical unit.
The Sun contacted a Prairie Mountain Health representative for more information on the outbreak but didn’t receive an official response by press time.
The province is currently contending with 664 hospitalizations due to COVID, at least 50 of which are admitted to an intensive care unit for treatment.
The province’s five-day test positivity rate is 32.4 per cent.
The province also reported 827 new COVID cases on Friday. However, public health officials have stated in the past that the real number of daily cases is actually much higher due to limited testing capability and the highly infectious nature of the omicron variant.
As of Friday, 85.3 per cent of eligible Manitobans have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, while 78.5 per cent have received two doses and 37.4 per cent have received a booster shot.
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