Thread by @bkives

Manitoba announced 364 new cases of #COVID19 and 3 more deaths on Wednesday, May 12, 2021.

Active cases: 3,837
Total caseload: 43,143
Recovered: 37,945
Deaths: 1,000

One thousand Manitobans have died of COVID-19 in the 14 months since the start of the pandemic.

Manitoba #COVID19 patients in hospital: 221 (up seven)

In ICU: 62 (up 3, new record high)

Five-day Manitoba #COVID19 test-positivity rate: 12.1 per cent (up 0.1 percentage points)

Winnipeg rate: 14.4 per cent (record is 14.9)

Tests completed Tuesday: 3,567

The 998th, 999th and one-thousandth Manitobans to succumb to #COVID19:

• A Prairie Mountain woman in her 50s who contracted B117
• A Winnipeg man in his 60s who contracted B117
• An Interlake-Eastern man in his 70s who contracted an unspecified variant of concern

Seven-day average daily case count rises to 440 in Manitoba, a new record.

Manitoba identified 211 new variant-of-concern cases from previous positive cases.

Active VOC cases: 1,828
Total: 4,822
Recovered: 2,967
Deaths: 27

VOCs now 48% of active COVID cases.

Manitoba recorded another 15,473 #COVID19 vaccine doses.

Manitobans with at least 1 shot: 507,898
Proportion of Manitobans 18 and up at least partly immunized: 47.3%

Fully immunized: 78,027
Proportion fully immunized: 7.3%

Manitobans aged 18 and up: ~1,074,581

Correction to initial tweet in this stream:

Active cases now 3,940
Recovered: 38,203

Regional breakdown of new Manitoba #COVID19 cases:

223 Winnipeg
50 Interlake-Eastern
47 Southern
34 Prairie Mountain
10 Northern

New outbreak:

- St. Norbert Personal Care Home, Winnipeg

There are now 115 patients of all diagnoses (COVID and non-COVID) in Manitoba ICUs.

Second-wave peak was 129.

Of 62 COVID patients in ICU, 13 are under age 40.

Source: Shared Health