Health officials announced 152 new cases of COVID-19 and 3 more deaths today.
All of the deaths announced are in the Winnipeg health region. There have been a total of 823 deaths in Manitoba due to the virus.
Today’s new COVID-19 cases are in the following health regions:
• nine cases in Interlake–Eastern health region
• 81 cases in the Northern health region
• 24 cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region
• 14 cases in the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region and
• 29 cases in the Winnipeg health region
There have been a total of 29,280 cases in the province.
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 7.5 percent provincially and 4.9 percent in Winnipeg.
There are 3,490 active cases in Manitoba and 24,967 people have recovered from the virus.
There are 122 people in hospital with active COVID-19 and 150 who are no longer infectious but continue to require care, for a total of 272 hospitalizations.
There are 29 people in intensive care units with active COVID-19 and 10 people who are no longer infectious but continue to require critical care, for a total of 39 ICU patients.
According to the province’s data, there are active cases in the following Parkland health districts: Dauphin (2), Riding Mountain (2), Porcupine Mountain (53), Duck Mountain (4), Asessippi (15), Little Saskatchewan (9), Whitemud (1), and Agassiz Mountain (22). Brandon has 48 active cases.
In the Interlake, the Eriksdale/Ashern health district has 70 active cases, while Fisher/Peguis also has 69.
