Manitoba health officials are reporting 11 more deaths and 327 new cases of COVID-19 today.
Today's numbers cover a two-day period, as there was no provincial COVID update on Friday due to the New Year's holiday.
Today’s COVID-19 data shows:
- 16 cases in the Interlake–Eastern health region
- 52 cases in the Northern health region
- 13 cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region
- 33 cases in the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region
- 213 cases in the Winnipeg health region
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 10.4 percent provincially and 11.1 percent in Winnipeg.
There are 4,559 active cases province-wide and 19,789 individuals who have recovered. The total number of cases in Manitoba is 25,026.
239 people are in hospital with active COVID-19 with 36 in intensive care. There number of deaths due to COVID-19 in Manitoba is 678.
According to the province’s data, there are active cases in the following Parkland health districts: Dauphin (7, up from 5 Thursday), Riding Mountain (4), Swan River (2), Porcupine Mountain (91), Duck Mountain (1), Asessippi (4), Little Saskatchewan (3), and Agassiz Mountain (11). Brandon has 29 active cases.
In the Interlake, the Eriksdale/Ashern health district has 34 active cases, while Fisher/Peguis has 38.
Public health officials advise 11 additional deaths in people with COVID-19 have been reported today for the period of Jan. 1 and 2 including:
- a male in his 50s from the Northern health region
- a male in his 60s from the Interlake–Eastern Health region
- a female in her 60s from the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region
- a male in his 70s from the Winnipeg health region
- a male in his 70s from the Winnipeg health region
- a female in her 80s from the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region
- a female in her 80s from the Winnipeg health region
- a male in his 80s from the Winnipeg health region
- a male in his 80s from the Winnipeg health region
- a female in her 90s from the Winnipeg health region
- a male in his 90s from the Winnipeg health region
