In today’s COVID Update, public health officials announced 166 new cases of the virus and 2 more deaths.
One of the deaths was in Winnipeg, the other one was in Southern Health. This brings the total number of deaths in the province to 825.
Today’s COVID-19 data shows:
- 26 cases in the Interlake-Eastern health region;
- 69 cases in the Northern health region;
- 14 cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region;
- 10 cases in the Southern Health-Santé Sud health region; and
- 47 cases in the Winnipeg health region.
According to the province’s data, there are active cases in the following Parkland health districts: Dauphin (2), Riding Mountain (1, down from 2), Porcupine Mountain (55, up from 53), Duck Mountain (4), Asessippi (14, down from 15), Little Saskatchewan (10, up from 9), Whitemud (1), and Agassiz Mountain (23, up from 22). Brandon has 51 active cases.
In the Interlake, the Eriksdale/Ashern health district has 69 active cases, while Fisher/Peguis has 71.
The provincial total is now 29,446.
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 7.3 per cent provincially and 4.4 per cent in Winnipeg.
There are 3,526 active cases in Manitoba and 25,095 people have recovered from the virus.
There are 127 people in hospital with active COVID-19 and 148 who are no longer infectious but continue to require care, for a total of 275 hospitalizations.
There are 30 people in intensive care units with active COVID-19 and 9 people who are no longer infectious but continue to require critical care, for a total of 39 ICU patients.
