Thread by @bkives

Manitoba announced 447 new cases of #COVID19 and 14 more deaths on Friday, Dec. 11, 2020.

Active cases: 5,517*
Total caseload: 20,392
Recovered: 14,410
Deaths: 465

*Overstated due to backlog in designating active cases as recovered.

Manitoba #COVID19 patients in hospital: 297*
In ICU: 40*

*Understated. The count does not include long-term COVID patients who are no longer contagious but still require hospital care.

Five-day Manitoba #COVID19 test-positivity rate: 13.8 per cent

Tests completed Thursday: 2,723

The latest Manitobans to succumb to #COVID19:

• Two Winnipeg men in their 50s
• An Interlake-Eastern man in his 70s
• A Winnipeg woman in her 70s (Health Science Centre GD4 outbreak)
• A Winnipeg woman in her 80s

1/3

• Two Winnipeg women in their 80s (Holy Family PCH outbreak)
• A Winnipeg man in his 80s
• A Winnipeg woman in her 80s (Charleswood Care Centre)
• A Winnipeg woman in her 90s (Simkin Centre)
• A Winnipeg woman in her 90s (Bethania Mennonite Personal Care Home)

2/3

• A Southern man in his 90s (Rest Haven Nursing Home)
• A Winnipeg man in his 90s
• A Southern woman in her 100s (Villa Youville)

Regional breakdown of new #COVID19 cases:

193 Winnipeg
136 Northern
43 Interlake-Eastern
40 Southern
35 Prairie Mountain

This big case count can be seen as a disappointment - the seven-day average count, as of yesterday was 314.

The case count for Northern Health is disturbing considering the population of the region.

New outbreaks:

- Hamiota Health Centre acute care unit, Hamiota
- Seven Oaks General Hospital, unit 3U4-7, Winnipeg

Hanover School Division drops down to orange from red on Jan. 4, joining the rest of Manitoba school divisions.

Roussin: Manitoba's death rate has increased by 9 times since Thanksgiving.

Roussin: 3 of 10 cases are First Nations and half the patients in hospital are First Nations.

Roussin now talks about an unsung change in the public health order:

Students returning for the holidays can live at home temporarily, though non-essential travel is not recommended and quarantine from the east remains in place.

Roussin says there are situations where students will return home.

Roussin:

Children from multiple households must not gather over holidays. Not allowed. Doesn't matter if they share cohorts at school.

Roussin: No large meals. No large gatherings. Gather virtually.

Siragusa:

COVID hospital data improved.

388 hospitalized w/COVID
298 COVID patients still infectious
90 COVID patients not infectious

121 ICU patients of all sorts
40 contagious COVID patients
13 longer-term COVID patients

48 COVID patients on ventilators

To repeat:

388 COVID patients in hospital
53 COVID patients in ICU

Dashboard figures only state contagious patients.

Siragusa:

14 rooms in use in new 138-room homeless COVID shelter.

57 of 90 rooms in use in Red Cross site.

There are 14 outbreaks in nine Manitoba hospitals.

Roussin: Still working on getting accurate numbers of active and recovered cases. Not there yet.

Roussin asked about NHL jumping vaccine queue. Says he's heard nothing about that.

Roussin says the jump in Northern cases is due to the severe outbreak in Shamattawa.

Roussin: MB will not sell vaccines to private entities, including the Jets.

Roussin asked if fans will be allowed back into stadiums and arenas if most Manitobans are vaccinated by early fall.

Too early to say. Large events will be last gatherings allowed when restrictions are eased.

Roussin asked why critical-care workers are getting vaccinated first and not care-home residents.

Says it's logistical requirements of initial tiny shipment of vaccine.

Roussin clarifies: Even casual hockey has a size limit of five people.