Over the past four days, there have been two new cases of COVID-19 identified in the Prairie Mountain Health region.
On Tuesday the province added a total of 76 new cases, with no deaths reported.
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 5% provincially and 4.3% in Winnipeg.
The province says eight previous cases have been removed due to a data correction, leaving the the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba at 31,551.
The total number of confirmed B.1.1.7 variant of concern (the U.K. variant) cases is five.
There are 1,212 active cases and 29,453 individuals who have recovered from COVID-19 in Manitoba.
There are 85 people in hospital with active COVID-19 as well as 131 people in hospital who are no longer infectious but continue to require care (216 hospitalizations total).
There are 12 people in intensive care units with active COVID-19 as well as 21 people who are no longer infectious but continue to require critical care (33 ICU patients total).
The total number of deaths in people with COVID-19 in Manitoba is 886.
Today’s new COVID-19 cases are from the following health districts:
• seven cases in Interlake–Eastern health region
• 21 cases in the Northern health region
• one case in the Prairie Mountain Health region
• zero cases in the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region
• 47 cases in the Winnipeg health region
According to the province’s data, there are active cases in the following Parkland health districts: Dauphin (1), Porcupine Mountain (1) and Asessippi (6). Brandon has 11 active cases.
In the Interlake, the Eriksdale/Ashern health district has 2 active cases, while Fisher/Peguis has 10.
