Today health officials announced a confirmed case of the B.117 COVID-19 variant in Manitoba – the variant that was first identified in the U.K.
Dr. Brent Roussin says the confirmed case is related to international travel and the person has since recovered. Five household contacts are self-isolating but none of them have tested positive.
In today’s daily COVID-19 update, 75 new cases and 3 more deaths were reported.
A man from Prairie Mountain Health and two women from Winnipeg are the most recent deaths in Manitoba due to COVID-19.
Today’s new COVID-19 cases are in the following health regions:
• three cases in Interlake–Eastern health region
• 16 cases in the Northern health region
• zero cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region
• five cases in the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region
• 51 cases in the Winnipeg health region
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 5.4 percent provincially and 4.3 percent in Winnipeg.
There have been a total of 30,360 cases identified in Manitoba since the start of the pandemic.
There are 1,597 active cases and 27,910 recoveries.
There are 104 people in hospital with active COVID-19 and 162 people in hospital who are no longer infectious but continue to require care, for a total of 266 hospitalizations.
There are 15 people in intensive care units with active COVID-and 18 people with COVID-19 who are no longer infectious but continue to require critical care, for a total of 33 ICU patients.
The total number of deaths die to COVID-19 is 853.
According to the province’s data, there are active cases in the following Parkland health districts: Dauphin (4, down from 6 yesterday), Riding Mountain (1), Porcupine Mountain (6), Duck Mountain (0), Asessippi (8), Little Saskatchewan (0), Whitemud (2), and Agassiz Mountain (1). Brandon has 18 active cases.
In the Interlake, the Eriksdale/Ashern health district has 16 active cases, while Fisher/Peguis has 26.
