Thread by @bkives

Manitoba announced 383 new cases of #COVID19 and 14 more deaths on Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020.

Active cases: 9,216*
Total caseload: 18,806
Recovered: 9,195
Deaths: 395

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

Manitoba #COVID19 patients in hospital: 348

In ICU: 43*

*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: 13.6 per cent

Tests completed Saturday: 2,231

The latest Manitobans to succumb to #COVID19:

• A Winnipeg man in his 20s
• A Winnipeg woman in her 60s
• A Winnipeg man in his 60s (Charleswood Care outbreak)
• An Interlake-Eastern man in his 70s (Kin Place Personal Care Home outbreak)
• A Winnipeg woman in her 70s

1/3

• A Southern man in his 70s
• A Winnipeg man in his 70s (Health Sciences Centre outbreak)
• A Southern woman in her 80s (Woodhaven Manor outbreak)
• A Winnipeg man in his 80s
• Two Winnipeg women in their 80s (Park Manor Care Home outbreak)

2/3

• A Winnipeg woman in her 90s (Holy Family Personal Care Home outbeak)
• A Winnipeg woman in her 90s (St. Norbert Personal Care Home outbreak)
• A Prairie Mountain man in his 90s (Gilbert Plains Personal Care Home outbreak)

Regional breakdown of new Manitoba #COVID19 cases:

272 Winnipeg
36 Southern
36 Northern
22 Interlake-Eastern
17 Prairie Mountain

Winnipeg test-positivity rate: 14.4 per cent