Manitoba public health reported 1436 new cases of COVID-19 for the week of April 17th to 23rd up from 1190 reported the previous week. The total reported cases in the province now stands at 140,931. Hospital admissions during the week were 188 up four with 12 of them admissions to ICU down from 22 the previous week. Of the new cases the highest number was 736 in Winnipeg with the lowest the Northern region at 111 up from 67 the previous week.
Saskatchewan health reported 829 new cases down from 889 reported the previous week. Of the new cases 31 were in Far North East up from seven the previous week. As of April 27th 409 people were hospitalized down eight and 20 were intensive care admissions down five from the previous week. The Omicron BA-2 sub lineage accounted for 69.7 percent of the variants of concern reported up from the previous week.
