Public health officials announced 35 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday.
This weekend has added 51 new cases to Manitoba’s caseload and there are now 182 active cases in the province.
Broken down, today’s new cases feature 20 cases in the PMH region, 10 in the Southern Health Region, 4 in Winnipeg, and 1 in the Interlake-Eastern Health Region.
Many of the new cases today are linked to known clusters in the Southern Health region and Brandon or are close contacts to a previously announced case. However, preliminary information does suggest a small number of cases have an unknown form of acquisition.
Right now in Manitoba, 6 people are in hospital with 3 in intensive care, 352 people have recovered and the number of deaths remains at 8.
Dr Roussin gave an update on last week’s announcement of dividing health regions into sub-health regions to give Manitobans a more detailed look at where COVID-19 is.
“We’re working to provide information that is broken down by health districts. Health districts are administrative zones within each regional health authority. This will allow us to break down case numbers in more detail while continuing to ensure the privacy of Manitobans. We expect that this more detailed data will be available later this week on the COVID-19 dashboard.”
756 lab tests were performed on Saturday, which brings the total since early February, to 100,830.
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