Thread by @bkives

Manitoba announced 343 new cases of #COVID19 and 11 more deaths on Monday, Nov. 30, 2020.

Active cases: 9,260*
Total caseload: 16,825
Recovered: 7,253
Deaths: 312

*Overstated due to backlog in calling patients to designate active cases as recovered.

Manitoba #COVID19 patients in hospital: 342 (new record, up six)

In ICU: 43* (down one)

*Understated. The count does not include long-term COVID patients Shared Health no longer considers contagious but who still require intensive care.

Five-day Manitoba #COVID19 test-positivity rate: 13.4 per cent
Tests completed Sunday: 2,611

The latest Manitobans to succumb to #COVID19:

• A Winnipeg man in his 30s
• A Winnipeg woman in her 40s
• A Winnipeg woman in her 70s (HSC GA3 outbreak)
• A Prairie Mountain woman in her 80s (Fairview outbreak)
• A Prairie Mountain man in his 80s (Fairview outbtreak)

1/2

• A Southern man in his 80s (Villa Youville outbreak)
• A Winnipeg man in his 80s (Charleswood outbreak)
• A Wpg man in his 80s (Golden Links outbreak)
• A Wpg woman in her 90s (St. Norbert outbreak)
• A Wpg woman in her 90s
• A Southern man in his 90s (Bridgepark Manor)

Regional breakdown of new Manitoba #COVID19 cases:

• 207 Winnipeg
• 53 Southern
• 46 Northern
• 23 Interlake–Eastern
• 14 Prairie Mountain

New Manitoba #COVID19 outbreaks:

- Lakeshore General Hospital, Ashern
- West Park Manor Personal Care Home, Winnipeg.

Siragusa:

105 ICU patients of all sorts in MB
44 ICU beds occupied by COVID patients
31 COVID patients on ventilators

Siragusa repeats: Health-care system is at risk of being overwhelmed if case counts don't go down.

Siragusa:

27 more health-care workers tested positive for #CVID19 last week

Siragusa:

19 Manitoba paramedics have tested positive since start of pandemic, none in past week

Total number of MB health-care workers who've tested positive since start of pandemic: 743

[No fewer than two COVID deaths among health-care workers in MB.]

Siragusa asked again about military support for personal care homes.

She says additional supports are being provided.

Says again, she doesn't oppose military help and there "may" be a future need for them.

Roussin asked what else he can say about boy under 10 who died.

Nothing, besides underlying conditions were a factor.

I asked Roussin why drive-in faith services are not allowed.

Says there remains risks: people may get out of cars to use the washroom, may socialize outside of cars, may not all be from one household inside a car ...

Roussin says the Winnipeg boy under 10 who died did not acquire #COVID19 at school.

Siragusa: HSC ready to open another 14-bed unit for ICU patients.

Other hospitals can expand into recovery rooms.

[This doesn't solve staff issue, though.]

Roussin: MB started to look at priority groups to receive vaccines and logistics involving distribution.

One issue is ultra-low-temperature storage.

[Feds still haven't unveiled distro strategy.]