Manitoba COVID-19 hospitalizations continue decline in latest update – CBC

May 26, 2022

Manitoba’s COVID-19 death toll increased by 15 in the latest weekly public health update.

There have now been 1,928 confirmed deaths related to the coronavirus in Manitoba since the start of the pandemic.

Hospitalizations continued to decline.

There were 112 hospital admissions from May 15 to 21, a decrease from 149 the previous week. There were 21 admissions to intensive care units, including a child under 10.

Chief Provincial Public Health Officer Dr. Brent Roussin said last week that hospitalizations and ICU admissions in this wave of the pandemic appeared to have peaked.

Laboratory tests confirmed 537 new cases of COVID-19, a decrease from 728 the week before. However, case counts reported by the province undercount the true number of infections, due to strictly limited access to polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing, the only type of test the province records. Rapid test results are not tracked.

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-weekly-covid-19-update-may-15-21-1.6466562