Health officials announced 133 new cases of COVID-19 today and 8 more deaths.
One of today’s deaths is from the Interlake Health region, one is from the Southern Health region, and the remaining 6 deaths are from Winnipeg.
Today’s new COVID-19 cases are in the following health regions:
• 17 cases in Interlake-Eastern health region
• 61 cases in the Northern health region
• 19 cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region
• seven cases in the Southern Health-Santé Sud health region and
• 29 cases in the Winnipeg health region
There have been a total of 29,128 cases province-wide.
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 8.7 percent provincially and 5.4 percent in Winnipeg.
There are 3,456 active cases of COVID-19 in Manitoba and 24,851 recoveries.
There are 124 people in hospital with active COVID-19 as well as 153 people who are no longer infectious but continue to require care, for a total of 277 hospitalizations.
There are 25 people in intensive care units with active COVID-19 and 12 people who are no longer infectious but continue to require critical care, for a total of 37 ICU patients.
The total number of deaths due to COVID-19 is 821.
According to the province’s data, there are active cases in the following Parkland health districts: Dauphin (3), Riding Mountain (4), Porcupine Mountain (54), Duck Mountain (3), Asessippi (15), Little Saskatchewan (6), Whitemud (1), and Agassiz Mountain (21). Brandon has 37 active cases (down from 51).
In the Interlake, the Eriksdale/Ashern health district has 72 active cases, while Fisher/Peguis also has 69.
