There are 344 new COVID-19 cases in Manitoba and 14 more people have died from the illness, the province's chief public health officer said Friday.
The five-day test positivity rate — a rolling average of the COVID-19 tests that come back positive — is now down to 14.5 per cent provincewide and 14.2 per cent in Winnipeg, Dr. Brent Roussin said at Manitoba's daily COVID-19 news conference.
There are now a record 322 people in hospital with the illness in Manitoba, up from 307 on Thursday. Of those, 45 are in intensive care.
While the number of new cases announced Friday was a drop from 383 reported the day before, Roussin warned again that health-care providers are being overwhelmed by the increasing burden of COVID-19 on the health-care system.
"Although we don't see the dramatic climb in numbers, we're at a state of numbers that we can't maintain," he said.
"We're not going to be able to have enough capacity to maintain these numbers for much longer."
The deaths announced Friday include nine linked to known outbreaks across the province.
Among those are three women linked to the outbreak at the Saul and Claribel Simkin Centre in Winnipeg: two in their 80s and one over the age of 100.
They also include people connected to several other Winnipeg outbreaks: two men in their 90s liked to Golden Links Lodge, a woman in her 70s linked to Parkview Place Long Term Care Home and a man in his 90s linked to the St. Norbert Personal Care Home.
The latest deaths also include a woman in her 90s linked to Fairview Home in the Prairie Mountain Health region and a man in his 90s linked to Rest Haven Nursing Home in the Southern Health region.
The deaths announced Friday also include two men (one in his 50s, one in his 70s) from the Winnipeg health region, two men (in their 50s and 70s) from the Interlake-Eastern health region, and a man in his 70s from the Southern Health region.
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Manitoba's chief public health officer and chief nursing officer are set to give an update on COVID-19 in the province Friday afternoon.
CBC News will live stream the news conference with Dr. Brent Roussin and Lanette Siragusa here at 12:30 p.m. CT.
The update comes as Manitoba's coronavirus-linked hospitalizations and deaths continue to rise. On Thursday, Roussin said roughly 70 per cent of the province's total COVID-19 deaths happened this month.
This week marked the highest number of daily hospitalizations linked to the illness in Manitoba. As of Thursday, there were a record 307 people hospitalized, including 46 in intensive care.
Manitoba also posted its highest daily case increase on Monday, when the province reported 546 more people had contracted the illness.
Meanwhile, Manitoba's largest school division is planning to have teachers walk students through an in-class exercise next week that will mimic what it might be like if the entire school system moves to remote learning.
The Winnipeg School Division's exercise is intended to give students a sense of how things could work if the province quickly moves schools to the critical red level of the pandemic response system.
It's set to happen 10 days before current restrictions across Manitoba are set to expire, though Roussin said this week that people should expect some rules to stay for now.
In the Southern Health region, where test positivity rates have soared this month, the Hanover School Division has already moved to full online learning.
The province has acknowledged it's considering extending the winter break for students, though officials haven't yet confirmed whether that will happen.
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