Manitoba health officials announced one additional death due to COVID-19 and 45 new cases today.
Today’s death is a woman in her 90's from the Winnipeg health region. This brings the total number of deaths in the province to 887.
Today the province announced vaccine appointments are now opening up to the general public, starting with the oldest Manitobans. Click here to read more.
No new cases of the COVID-19 variant were announced today.
Today’s COVID-19 cases are in the following health regions:
• three cases in Interlake–Eastern health region
• 10 cases in the Northern health region
• one case in the Prairie Mountain Health region
• eight cases in the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region
• 23 cases in the Winnipeg health region
There have been a total of 31,590 cases of COVID-19 identified in Manitoba since the start of the pandemic.
There are 1,196 active cases and 29,507 individuals who have recovered from COVID-19
There are 81 people in hospital with active COVID-19 as well as 126 people who are no longer infectious but continue to require care, for a total of 207 hospitalizations.
There are 11 people in intensive care units with active COVID-19 and 18 people who are no longer infectious but continue to require critical care, for a total of 29 ICU patients.
According to the province’s data, there are active cases in the following Parkland health districts: Dauphin (1), Porcupine Mountain (1) and Asessippi (5). Brandon has 9 active cases.
In the Interlake, the Eriksdale/Ashern health district has 2 active cases, while Fisher/Peguis has 10.
