Manitoba: Covid cases/news October-December 2020

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Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manit...r-20-1.5809873

Man in 20s among latest COVID-19 victims while Steinbach's test positivity rate hits 40%
Manitoba tops 200 deaths on 1st day of tightened restrictions on gatherings, sale of non-essential items
Bryce Hoye ? CBC News ? Posted: Nov 20, 2020 11:40 AM CT | Last Updated: 23 minutes ago


Manitoba health officials say there are 438 new COVID-19 cases Friday and listed nine more deaths, including a man in his 20s, bringing the provincial death toll to 207.

"This is tragic to see all of these listings every single day now," said Chief Provincial Public Health Officer Dr. Brent Roussin. "These are not just numbers. This was a son, a Manitoban."

The man in his 20s is the youngest person to die of the illness in Manitoba.

A record 281 people are in hospital, up from 263 yesterday, and the provincial test positivity rate dropped to 13.7 per cent, down from 14 on Thursday.

A record 281 COVID-19 patients are in hospital, with 43 of them in intensive care.

The 10-day test positivity rate in the Steinbach health district is at 40 per cent, and there have been 24 Steinbach deaths since the beginning of the pandemic, Roussin said.

Winnipeg's test positivity is at 13.7 per cent.

"When you're looking at something like 40 per cent … this is a very concerning number," Roussin said...

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Source: https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/387-new-...rday-1.5199263

387 new COVID-19 cases, 10 deaths in Manitoba Saturday
Mason DePatie
Published Saturday, November 21, 2020 12:57PM CST Last Updated Saturday, November 21, 2020 1:05PM CST

WINNIPEG -- Manitoba health officials are reporting 10 new COVID-19 deaths and 387 new cases of the disease.

Announced in the province's daily COVID-19 bulletin on Saturday, most of the deaths are linked to seniors' care facilities.

The youngest death announced was a man in his 30s from the Winnipeg health region...

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Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manit...date-1.5811820

243 new COVID-19 cases, 12 deaths, record hospitalizations in Manitoba on Sunday

There are now 288 Manitobans hospitalized with COVID-19, 52 in ICU, marking new provincial records
CBC News ? Posted: Nov 22, 2020 12:30 PM CT | Last Updated: 4 hours ago

There are 243 new cases of COVID-19 in Manitoba on Sunday and 12 more people have died from the illness, the province says in a news release.

That update marks the lowest single-day increase in new COVID-19 cases in Manitoba since Nov. 14, when 237 new cases were announced.

There are 288 people now in hospital with COVID-19 in Manitoba, 52 of whom are in intensive care, the release says — setting two new records in the province.

The deaths announced Sunday are all people from the Winnipeg health region, the release says.

They mostly include people whose cases are not linked to any known outbreaks: four men (in their 40s, 70s, 80s and 90s) and three women (in their 70s, 80s and 90s).

Also among the deaths are a man in his 60s linked to the Victoria General Hospital outbreak, a woman in her 80s linked to the Parkview Place Long Term Care Home outbreak, a woman in her 80s linked to the Maples Long Term Care Home outbreak, a man in his 90s linked to the Beacon Hill Lodge outbreak and a woman in her 90s linked to the St. Norbert Personal Care Home outbreak.

The Maples and Parkview Places personal care homes, owned by for-profit company Revera, have become the sites of Manitoba's largest COVID-19 outbreaks.

As of Monday, 40 residents at the Maples home had died of the illness, according to the province, making the outbreak at that facility Manitoba's deadliest. In a statement on Saturday, Revera said 27 residents at Parkview Place had died of COVID-19.

The update brings Manitoba's coronavirus-linked death toll to 229, the release says. It comes at the end of a week when Manitoba announced the deaths of three people with COVID-19 under the age of 40. That list includes a man in his 20s, the youngest person in the province to die of COVID-19.

Manitoba's five-day test positivity rate is down slightly to 13.7 per cent, as is Winnipeg's at 13.6 per cent...

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Source: https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/manitoba...nday-1.5200583

Manitoba reports record spike of more than 540 new COVID-19 cases on Monday
Danton Unger
Editorial Producer - Digital
Published Monday, November 23, 2020 9:06AM CST Last Updated Monday, November 23, 2020 2:04PM CST

WINNIPEG -- Manitoba has once again set a record of COVID-19 cases, with more than 540 people testing positive for COVID-19 as of Monday morning.

Dr. Brent Roussin, the chief provincial public health officer, reported 543 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday. This is the highest single-day spike of cases the province has seen yet.

The majority of the cases were reported in the Winnipeg region, which had 368 new cases as of Monday morning. The five-day test positivity rate in Winnipeg is now at 13.8 per cent.

The Southern Health region also reported a significant spike in cases, with 118 more cases...

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Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manit...r-24-1.5814191

Manitoba reports 476 new cases of COVID-19, 12 more deaths
Province ties record 5-day test positivity rate of 14.2% set under a week ago
Bryce Hoye ? CBC News ? Posted: Nov 24, 2020 11:32 AM CT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

There are 476 new cases of COVID-19 and 12 more deaths in Manitoba, the province says, bringing the death toll to 248.

"These are Manitobans who are missed and are loved," Chief Provincial Public Health Officer Dr. Brent Roussin said.

The number of patients in hospital due to the illness has declined slightly to 292, down from 296 yesterday. Active cases in intensive care are also down five to 47.

The five-day provincial test positivity rate ties the record of 14.2 per cent, which was set less than a week ago. Winnipeg's test positivity rate is 13.9 per cent...

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Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manit...date-1.5815662

349 new COVID-19 cases in Manitoba as hospitalizations crack 300
Coronavirus-linked hospitalizations doubled, ICU patients nearly tripled in roughly 3 weeks
CBC News ? Posted: Nov 25, 2020 11:27 AM CT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago

The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 in Manitoba continued its steady climb on Wednesday, cracking 300 for the first time.

Of the 303 people now in hospital with the illness, 50 are in intensive care, Chief Provincial Public Health Officer Dr. Brent Roussin said at a news conference.

Those numbers have shot up since the beginning of November, with coronavirus-linked hospitalizations in Manitoba more than doubling from 140 three weeks ago. The number of patients in intensive care has nearly tripled in the same period of time.

Another 349 new cases of COVID-19 and nine more deaths linked to the illness were also announced in Manitoba on Wednesday...

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Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manit...date-1.5817264

70% of COVID-19 deaths in Manitoba happened this month, top doctor says as he announces 383 new cases
'We can’t continue to list off this many Manitobans lost daily,' Dr. Brent Roussin says, reporting 10 deaths
Caitlyn Gowriluk ? CBC News ? Posted: Nov 26, 2020 11:28 AM CT | Last Updated: 25 minutes ago

Roughly 70 per cent of Manitoba's total COVID-19 deaths happened this month, the province's chief public health officer said on Thursday as he announced 10 more people had lost their lives to the illness.

"These deaths are much more than numbers. These are loved ones who are sorely missed right now," Dr. Brent Roussin said at a news conference.

"We can't continue with these daily case counts. We can't continue to list off this many Manitobans lost daily."

Since the start of November, 185 people in Manitoba have died of COVID-19, Roussin said, compared to 60 in the entire month of October.

The latest deaths bring the total coronavirus-linked fatalities in Manitoba to 266...

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Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manit...date-1.5819112

Health-care capacity dwindling, top doctor warns, with 344 new COVID-19 cases, 14 more deaths in Manitoba
Province hasn't ruled out bringing military into care homes, says chief nursing officer
Caitlyn Gowriluk ? CBC News ? Posted: Nov 27, 2020 10:44 AM CT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

Manitoba's chief public health officer repeated his plea for people to stay home and reduce their contacts on Friday, as he warned the province's health-care system may not be able to sustain the COVID-19 numbers it's seeing for much longer.

With a record-high 322 people in hospital with the illness — up from 307 on Thursday — Dr. Brent Roussin said health-care providers are overwhelmed as high COVID-19 case counts and hospitalizations push the system to its limits.

"We need to step up as Manitobans now to decrease that burden on our health-care system," he said at a news conference, where he announced an additional 344 cases of COVID-19 and 14 more deaths linked to the illness.

While the number of new cases announced Friday was a drop from 383 reported the day before, Roussin said the numbers are still a cause for concern.

"Although we don't see the dramatic climb in numbers, we're at a state of numbers that we can't maintain. We're not going to be able to have enough capacity to maintain these numbers for much longer."

As of midnight, Manitoba's intensive care units were operating at 152 per cent of their pre-COVID-19 capacity.

Just over 40 per cent of ICU beds taken up by patients battling the illness caused by the novel coronavirus, Shared Health Chief Nursing Officer Lanette Siragusa said at the news conference.

Thirty-two of the 70 patients on ventilators across Manitoba as of Friday are COVID-19-positive, Siragusa said...

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Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manit...v-28-1.5820609

Winnipeg boy under 10 among latest COVID-19 deaths in Manitoba
Death marks youngest person in province to die from COVID-19
Caitlyn Gowriluk ? CBC News ? Posted: Nov 28, 2020 12:32 PM CT | Last Updated: 33 minutes ago


A boy under the age of 10 is among 10 more deaths linked to COVID-19 announced in Manitoba on Saturday.

The boy in the Winnipeg health region is the youngest person in the province to die from the illness.

There are also 487 new cases of COVID-19 in Manitoba on Saturday, the province says in a news release.

Five of the deaths announced Saturday are linked to known outbreaks in Manitoba. They include a man in his 70s and a woman in her 90s linked to the Gilbert Plains Personal Care Home, a man in his 80s linked to Fairview Home in Brandon, a woman in her 80s linked to Heritage Lodge Long Term Care Home in Winnipeg and a man in his 90s linked to Park Manor Care in Winnipeg.

The remaining deaths announced Saturday are two women (in their 60s and 80s) from the Winnipeg health region, a man in his 60s from the Interlake-Eastern Health region and a woman in her 80s from the Southern Health region, the province's release says.

The latest deaths bring the province's number of coronavirus-linked fatalities to 290...

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Source: https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/365-new-...nday-1.5209353

365 new cases, 11 COVID-19 deaths in Manitoba Sunday
Mason DePatie
Published Sunday, November 29, 2020 12:47PM CST Last Updated Sunday, November 29, 2020 12:49PM CST

WINNIPEG -- Another 11 Manitobans have died from COVID-19, according to provincial health officials.

Announced in Sunday’s daily COVID-19 bulletin, the province also reported 365 new cases of the disease.

Almost all of the deaths reported Sunday are linked to seniors' care facilities...

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Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manit...v-30-1.5821871

Winnipeggers in 30s, 40s among new COVID-19 deaths in Manitoba
343 new cases announced Monday, record 342 people in hospital with coronavirus
Cameron MacLean ? CBC News ? Posted: Nov 30, 2020 11:30 AM CT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

A Winnipeg man in his 30s and a Winnipeg woman in her 40s are among 11 new COVID-19 deaths in Manitoba, health officials say.

Manitoba hit a new record high for COVID-19 hospitalizations with 342 people in hospital on Monday, as the province added 343 new cases to its total. There are 43 positive patients in intensive care units, down one from Sunday.

Seven of the deaths are connected to outbreaks at long-term care homes, including a man and a woman in their 80s at Fairview Personal Care Home...

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Source: https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/chief-of...p-in-1.5211881

Chief of Manitoba First Nation hit with COVID-19 calls for military to step in
Danton Unger
Published Tuesday, December 1, 2020 10:24AM CST

WINNIPEG -- A chief of a northern Manitoba First Nation is calling for the military to step in as the community faces an outbreak of COVID-19 cases which has grown to 60 cases.

Late Sunday evening, Shamattawa First Nation Chief Eric Redhead sent an urgent message to members of the community – stay home.

"I'm lost for words right now," he wrote in a Facebook post on Sunday, after reporting 30 new cases of COVID-19 had been reported on the community that day.

"We have more members of the rapid response team coming tomorrow. I am also pushing for the Canadian military to help with their medical expertise."

On Monday, Manitoba NDP MP Niki Ashton said the outbreak on Shamattawa had grown to 60 confirmed cases of COVID-19.

In a letter to the federal Minister of National Defence Harjit Sajjan, Ashton echoed the chief's calls for military support.

"The acute housing crisis in Shamattawa has meant that COVID-19 has spread much faster than in other communities and people do not have the ability to self-isolate," Ashton wrote in the letter...

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Source: https://globalnews.ca/news/7497079/c...covid19-dec-2/

14 more Manitobans fall to coronavirus, 277 new cases reported Wednesday
By Shane Gibson Global News
Posted December 2, 2020 12:58 pm
Updated December 2, 2020 2:51 pm

Manitoba health officials say another 14 Manitobans with COVID-19 have died, but the province’s daily case numbers fell for the second-straight day Wednesday.

Manitoba’s chief public health officer, Dr. Brent Roussin, said 277 new cases of the virus had been identified across the province as of Wednesday morning...

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Source: https://globalnews.ca/news/7499396/m...ay-december-3/

Manitoba reports 12 more coronavirus deaths, 368 new cases Thursday
By Shane Gibson Global News
Posted December 3, 2020 12:10 pm
Updated December 3, 2020 1:57 pm

This story will be updated when the press conference begins and throughout the conference as it runs.

Health officials say another 12 Manitobans have died from COVID-19 and 368 have been infected with the virus.

Read more: 14 more Manitobans fall to coronavirus, 277 new cases reported Wednesday

The latest cases announced on the province’s online COVID-19 portal Thursday bring the province’s total number of cases reported since March to 17,751.

Since March 353 Manitobans have died from COVID-19...

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Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manit...date-1.5828303

Record number in intensive care as Manitoba announces 320 new COVID-19 cases on Friday
Coronavirus-linked hospitalizations also reached new high, as 9 more deaths reported
CBC News ? Posted: Dec 04, 2020 10:23 AM CT | Last Updated: 5 hours ago

There are now more COVID-19 patients in Manitoba's hospitals and intensive care units than ever before, the province's top doctor says, after a week in which the number of people in hospital with the illness went up almost every day.

That trend continued on Friday, when Chief Provincial Public Health Officer Dr. Brent Roussin announced 361 people hospitalized with COVID-19, up from 357 on Thursday.

The record 55 intensive care patients with COVID-19 — 43 of whom are on ventilators — make up just under half of Manitoba's critical care patients, Shared Health Chief Nursing Officer Lanette Siragusa said at the conference...