Province records 15 new COVID deaths
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This article was published 26/05/2022 (1378 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Fifteen Manitobans died from COVID-19 during the third week of May, according to data released by the province.
The number of Manitobans who have died from the virus since the start of the pandemic is now 1,928.
Data suggests hospitalizations due to COVID-19 declined last week, however.
It appears Manitoba has passed the peak of the latest wave, but that doesn’t mean the province is out of the woods, according to a Brandon physician.
In previous comments, Dr. Derry Decter, a physician at Rosser Medical Clinic, said an increase in deaths toward the end of a wave isn’t unusual as that is usually a lagging indicator of an infection wave.
He said this week the warmer summer months are generally a quiet period for respiratory infections, but COVID is presenting a lot of unknowns.
“Just because things are going down doesn’t mean it’s going to go back up later,” he said. “We’ll have to wait another six months to be sure we are not going to get another peak. With this virus, we really don’t know what is going to happen.”
Hospitalizations are on the decline, which Decter said is also expected at the end of a peak. There were 112 hospital admissions from May 15-21, a decrease from 149 the previous week. There were 21 admissions to intensive care units, including a child under 10.
There were also 537 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed by lab testing, a decrease from 728 the week before. Health officials have said in previous comments case counts reported are likely undercounted due to strictly limited access to PCR testing. Rapid test results are not tracked.
Average daily testing volumes dropped last week, to 704 tests per day from 766.
The province’s test positivity rate dropped to 15.4 per cent, from 18.5 per cent the previous week.
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