Manitoba announced 400 new cases of #COVID19 and 2 more deaths on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2021.
Active cases: 2,622
Total caseload: 72,283
Recovered: 68,293
Deaths: 1,368
That's the highest single-day count since May 28.
The seven-day average daily case count rises to 281.
Highest since June 6.
Manitoba #COVID19 patients in hospital: 137 (up 4)
In ICU: 24 (down 2)
Total patients in ICU (COVID and non-COVID): 87 (down 3)
Five-day Manitoba #COVID19 test-positivity rate: 9.9 per cent (up 1.3 percentage points)
Winnipeg rate: 10.6 per cent
Tests completed Tuesday: 3,524
The latest Manitobans to succumb to #COVID19:
- A Winnipeg man in his 50s
- A Southern man in his 70s
Regional breakdown of new Manitoba #COVID19 cases:
256 Winnipeg
54 Prairie Mountain
51 Southern
31 Interlake-Eastern
8 Northern