Thread by @bkives

Manitoba announced 113 new cases of #COVID19 and 5 more deaths on Monday, Jan. 25, 2021.

Active cases: 3,542*
Total caseload: 28,810
Recovered: 24,464
Deaths: 804

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

Five-day Manitoba #COVID19 test-positivity rate: 10.8 per cent (up 0.2 percentage points)

Tests completed Sunday: 1,595

Manitoba #COVID19 patients in hospital: 272 (unchanged)

In ICU: 30 (down 6)

The latest Manitobans to succumb to #COVID19:

• A Winnipeg woman in her 50s
• A Wpg woman in her 70s (Concordia Place)
• A Prairie Mountain woman in her 70s
• A Prairie Mtn woman in her 80s (McCreary/Alonsa Health Ctre)
• A Prairie Mtn man in his 80s (Dauphin Health Ctre)

Regional breakdown of new Manitoba #COVID19 cases:

58 Northern
33 Winnipeg
10 Interlake-Eastern
6 Southern
6 Prairie Mountain

Outbreaks over:

- Brandon Correctional Centre
- Woodhaven Manor, Steinbach
- River Ridge II Retirement Residence, Winnipeg

Roussin reminds shuttered businesses they're not closed due to their pandemic hygiene efforts.

Reminds this is all about risk and says if everything opens, case numbers will rise again, as they did in November.

"There's no reason to think this will turn out differently."

Roussin again reminds people identified as contacts of known cases to stay home and isolate for two weeks.

Winnipeg five-day test-positivity rate: 6.8 per cent

Dr. Reimer: Manitoba is unsure if any 2nd-dose appointments will be postponed next week.

This depends on whether a Pfizer vaccine shipment is coming Feb. 8 and if so, how much is coming in that shipment.

Will update on Friday.

Reimer: Will announce vaccination priority list on Wednesday.

This will include sequencing for every population in Manitoba, she says.

Roussin: MB will revisit personal care home outbreak protocols and transfers once all eligible/willing residents and workers have their second shots.

Reimer: Auto-immune patients will be given an additional consent form to peruse and sign before they sign the regular consent form for getting the vaccine.

This is to ensure they know the potential risks.

Reimer: A one or two week delay in getting the second vaccine dose - beyond the standard three weeks - should not affect long-term immunity.

Older people, however, have slower immune responses and need that second dose on time.

Roussin asked how #COVID19 is spreading in Northern Manitoba.

Says there is no common theme. Gatherings are an issue, Large number of contacts is an issue.

Reimer won't say whether people aged 80 and up remain the top priority group for vaccinations.

Will only say elderly population is important.

Shared Health says 101 Manitoba patients of all sorts remain in intensive care.

Context: At the worst point in the fall, we had 129 officially in intensive care and 141 staffed beds.

Top Manitoba health districts by active* #COVID19 cases:

1. Island Lake: 693
2. Shamattawa/YF/Tataskweyak/Split Lake: 365
3. Downtown Wpg: 255
4. Bunibonibee/Oxford: 184
5. Northern Remote (Interlake-Eastern): 109

*Overstated due to data backlog

And that's it for today.