Manitoba health officials announced 95 new cases of COVID-19 and three more deaths today, all from the Winnipeg health region.
Today’s new COVID-19 cases are in the following health regions:
• three cases in Interlake–Eastern health region
• 59 cases in the Northern health region
• zero cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region
• two cases in the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region
• 31 cases in the Winnipeg health region
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 5.3 percent provincially and four percent in Winnipeg.
The total number of COVID-19 cases identified in Manitoba since the start of the pandemic is 31,329. There have been 882 deaths due to the virus.
The number of COVID-19 variants found in the province remains at 4.
There are 1,207 active cases and 29,240 people have recovered from COVID-19.
There are 79 people in hospital with active COVID-19 as well as 127 who are no longer infectious but continue to require care, for a total of 206 hospitalizations.
There are 16 people in intensive care units with active COVID-19 and 15 people who are no longer infectious but continue to require critical care, for a total of 31 ICU patients.
According to the province’s data, there are active cases in the following Parkland health districts: Dauphin (1) and Asessippi (8). Brandon has 12 active cases.
In the Interlake, the Eriksdale/Ashern health district has 2 active cases, while Fisher/Peguis has 19.
