Northern Manitoba recorded more than 10 new COVID-19 cases for the second time in a week Sept. 16, with 15 new infections.
Nine of the people in the region who tested positive for the virus since yesterday are not fully vaccinated, the provincial government says.
64 new infections were announced provincewide on Thursday, 36 of them in unvaccinated people, 20 of them in fully vaccinated people and eight of them in partially vaccinated people. On Wednesday, there were 49 new cases, 31 of them in unvaccinated people and nine each in fully vaccinated and partially vaccinated people.
57 per cent of active COVID-19 cases are in people who are unvaccinated, while 30 per cent affect people who are fully vaccinated and 13 per cent of those with active infections are partially vaccinated.
There are 62 Manitobans in hospital due to COVID-19, seven of them from the north. 12 of those in hospital are in intensive care, including two people from the north.
77 per cent of those in hospital with active COVID cases on Sept. 16 are unvaccinated, while 15 per cent are partially vaccinated and eight per cent are fully vaccinated. All of the patients in intensive care with active infections on Thursday were unvaccinated.
The five-day test positivity rate is 2.5 per cent and two deaths were announced on Thursday, making the total number of Manitobans who have died as a result of COVID-19 1,203.
The north has more than 120 active infections as of Sept. 16. 58 of them are in the Island Lake health district, 26 pf them are in The Pas/Opaskwayak/Kelsey health district, 13 are in Cross Lake/Pimicikamak and 12 are in Flin Flon/Snow Lake/Cranberry/Sherridon. Norway House and Thompson/Mystery Lake each have four active cases, while there are three cases in Pukatawagan/Mathias Colomb and three from unknown districts, according to the province’s COVID-19 website.
