Manitoba’s COVID-19 infection rate remains low and none of the positive patients have required any sort of hospitalization, but health workers say they’re concerned due to few free critical care beds in the province.
There have been 2,900 people tested with 17 confirmed positive cases, which puts Manitoba’s infection rate at close to 0.6 per cent. “As that proportion moves up, then we’re much more likely to be seeing community transmission,” Manitoba’s Chief Public Provincial Health Officer Dr.
Brent Roussin said Wednesday. Even with increasing numbers, Dr. Roussin said the province is ready. “The health care system has been at highest readiness since beginning of February,” he said.