The Manitoba Government has published a new Vaccine Dashboard. You can find it here:

https://manitoba.ca/covid19/vaccine/reports.html

COVID-19 update Wednesday, Jan 20
- 5-day test positivity rate is 9.5%. In Winnipeg it is 6.7%.
- 6 people died and one death was removed from the totals bringing the total to 788. See below for details. Condolences to the families.

- There are 153 new cases bringing the total to 27,893
• 18 cases in the Interlake–Eastern health region;
• 70 cases in the Northern health region;
• 8 cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region;
• 10 cases in Southern Health–Santé Sud region; and
• 48 cases in the Winnipeg health region.

- The 10-day new case total of 1,576 has increased by 2 since yesterday.
- The number of active cases has increased by 49
- an additional 99 have recovered for a total of 23,968
- That leaves 3,137 active cases (up from 3,088)
- Transcona has 27 active cases (up from 26 yesterday).

Recoveries are slightly understated and consequentially the Active Case count is overstated. New cases over the past 10 days total 1,576. The Active Case count is likely even lower than that.

- 20,265 vaccinations have been performed to date.
- 273 are in hospital including 36 in intensive care
- 1,911 tests completed yesterday for a total of 456,861 tests

Covid-19 deaths reported today:
• a male in his 50s from the Winnipeg health region;
• a female in her 60s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to the outbreak at Southeast Personal Care Home;
• a female in her 60s from the Winnipeg health region;
• a male in his 60s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to the outbreak at Southeast Personal Care Home;
• a female in her 90s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to the outbreak at Holy Family Personal Care Home; and
• a female in her 90s from the Prairie Mountain Health region, linked to the outbreak at McCreary/Alonsa Health Centre.

Provincial Response Level is now RED/CRITICAL for the entire province. Vaccine dashboard available at manitoba.ca/vaccine

Find out more at manitoba.ca/covid19/restartmb/prs/

Check out the Manitoba Covid-19 open database at geoportal.gov.mb.ca/pages/COVID-19%20Data%20Hub

Hi all: I've prepared a quick summary of the proposed changes to the public health orders. These new orders are still being finalized and will come into effect Saturday, Jan 23.

You can give feedback on what you think about these changes at https://engagemb.ca/restartmb-pandemic-response-system

COVID-19 update Tuesday, Jan 19
- 5-day test positivity rate is 9.9%. In Winnipeg it's 7.4%.
- 11 people died minus one data entry error for a total of 783. See below for details. Condolences to the families.

- There are 111 new cases bringing the total to 27,740
• 12 cases in the Interlake–Eastern health region;
• 33 cases in the Northern health region;
• 8 cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region;
• 6 cases in Southern Health–Santé Sud region; and
• 52 cases in the Winnipeg health region.

- The 10-day new case total of 1,574 has decreased by 92 since yesterday.
- The number of active cases has decreased by 20
- an additional 121 have recovered for a total of 23,869
- That leaves 3,088 active cases (down from 3,108)
- Transcona has 26 active cases (up from 24 yesterday).

Recoveries are slightly understated and consequentially the Active Case count is overstated. New cases over the past 10 days total 1,574. The Active Case count is likely even lower than that.

- 17,751 vaccinations have been performed to date.
- 279 are in hospital including 36 in intensive care
- 1,462 tests completed yesterday for a total of 454,841 tests

Covid-19 deaths reported today:
• a female in her 50s from the Interlake–Eastern health region;
• a male in his 80s from the Prairie Mountain Health region, linked to the outbreak at the McCreary/Alonsa Health Centre;
• a male in his 80s from the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region;
• a male in his 90s from the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region, linked to the outbreak at Heritage Life Personal Care Home;
• a male in his 50s from the Winnipeg health region;
• a male in his 60s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to the outbreak at the Southeast Personal Care Home;
• a male in his 70s from the Winnipeg health region;
• a female in her 80s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to the outbreak at Deer Lodge Centre, Lodge 4 West;
• a male in his 90s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to the outbreak at the Concordia Place;
• a male in his 90s from the Winnipeg health region; and
• a female in her 90s from the Winnipeg health region.

Provincial Response Level is now RED/CRITICAL for the entire province. Find out more at manitoba.ca/covid19/restartmb/prs/

Check out the Manitoba Covid-19 open database at geoportal.gov.mb.ca/pages/COVID-19%20Data%20Hub

UPDATE ON VACCINES FOR PERSONAL CARE HOMES

Eligibility criteria has expanded to include ALL health care workers providing direct care in personal care homes. Appointments can start being made again Tuesday morning at 6AM.

Vaccine rollout plan to Personal Care Homes has been ACCELERATED by one week - all eligible residents will be vaccinated by the end of January.

10 Personal Care Home's have already had their residents vaccinated (by end of Saturday) and 51 are scheduled for this week.

More details available here:
https://news.gov.mb.ca/news/index.html?item=50258&posted=2021-01-18

COVID-19 update Monday, Jan 18
- 5-day test positivity rate is 10.6%. In Winnipeg it's 7.2%
- 4 people died plus 8 on Sunday for a total of 773. See below for details. Condolences to the families.

- There are 118 new cases bringing the total to 27,629
• 11 cases in the Interlake–Eastern health region;
• 46 cases in the Northern health region;
• 7 cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region;
• 9 cases in Southern Health–Santé Sud region; and
• 45 cases in the Winnipeg health region.

- The 10-day new case total of 1,666 has decreased by 103 since yesterday.
- The number of active cases has increased by 27
- an additional 87 have recovered for a total of 23,748
- That leaves 3,108 active cases (up from 3,081)
- Transcona has 24 active cases (up from 18 Saturday)

Recoveries are slightly understated and consequentially the Active Case count is overstated. New cases over the past 10 days total 1,666. The Active Case count is likely even lower than that.

- 13,539 vaccinations have been performed to date.
- 289 are in hospital including 35 in intensive care
- 3,376 tests completed yesterday for a total of 453,481 tests

Covid-19 deaths reported Sunday:
• a male in his 70s from the Northern health region;
• a male in his 30s from the Winnipeg health region;
• a female in her 70s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to an outbreak at Health Sciences Centre GA4;
• a male in his 70s from the Winnipeg health region,
• a male in his 70s from the Winnipeg health region;
• a male in his 70s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to an outbreak at the Southeast Personal Care Home;
• a female in her 90s from the Winnipeg health region; and
• a female in her 90s from the Winnipeg health region.

Covid-19 deaths reported today:
• a male in his 80s from the Northern health region, linked to the outbreak at the Rod McGillivary Memorial Care Home;
• a male in his 60s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to the outbreak at the Southeast Personal Care Home;
• a female in her 70s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to the outbreak at the Concordia Place; and
• a female in her 80s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to the outbreak at the Health Science Centre WRS3.

Provincial Response Level is now RED/CRITICAL for the entire province. Find out more at manitoba.ca/covid19/restartmb/prs/

Check out the Manitoba Covid-19 open database at geoportal.gov.mb.ca/pages/COVID-19%20Data%20Hub