Manitoba added 675 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, while also setting a new record number of new cases on Saturday with 785, as the positivity rate from the five-day test soared to 19 percent.
The new record for cases came just one day after the province broke the previous record on Friday.
694 cases were also added on Sunday, for a total of 2,154 new cases over the Christmas long weekend.
Of the new cases, 1,463 were reported in Winnipeg, where the test’s positivity rate jumped to 21.2 percent.
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It had been 14.7 percent on Friday.
Eight more deaths were also reported over the three-day weekend: three on Saturday, two on Sunday, and three on Monday.
Those who died were between 20 and 90 years old. All but two were from the southern health region. The others, a woman in her 90s and a man in her 30s, were from the Prairie Mountain Health and Winnipeg regions, respectively.
The death toll is now 1,378.
Of the 675 new cases on Monday, 488 were in Winnipeg, 71 in Prairie Mountain Health, 62 in Southern Health, 32 in the Interlake-Eastern region and 22 in the north.
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158 people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19, up from 144 on Friday. Twenty-five of them are receiving intensive care, which is one more than on Friday.
There are currently 5,724 active COVID-19 cases in Manitoba, while 68,615 people are listed as recovered.
2,542 lab tests were completed on Sunday, bringing the total since early February 2020 to 1,259,338.
The province says health officials believe that roughly three-quarters of all COVID-19 cases in Manitoba are now the Omicron variant. He subsequently says that only certain samples will now be tested for the variant and that the Omicron cases will no longer be specifically described in the bulletins.
Outbreaks have also been reported at the Kin Place personal care home in Oakbank and Lodge 5 West at the Deer Lodge Center in Winnipeg.
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