Dauphin’s health district is now down to 0 active cases of COVID-19, according to the province.
This comes as the Prairie Mountain Health region has seen no new cases for back-to-back days.
Health officials announced 64 new cases of COVID-19 and one additional death due to the virus today.
No new cases of the COVID-19 variant have been identified.
Today’s death is a man in his 70’s from the Southern Health region.
Today’s new COVID-19 cases are in the following health regions:
• three cases in Interlake–Eastern health region
• 33 cases in the Northern health region
• zero cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region
• two cases in the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region
• 26 cases in the Winnipeg health region
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 3.9 percent provincially and 3.3 percent in Winnipeg.
There have been a total of 31,721 cases province-wide. The total number of deaths in Manitoba due to COVID-19 is 889.
There are 1,197 active cases of the virus in Manitoba and 29,635 people who have recovered from the virus.
There are 67 people in hospital with active COVID-19 and124 people who are no longer infectious but continue to require care, for a total of 191 hospitalizations.
There are 10 people in intensive care units with active COVID-19 as well as 18 people who are no longer infectious but continue to require critical care, for a total of 28 ICU patients.
According to the province’s data, there are active cases of COVID-19 in the following Parkland health districts: Dauphin (0), Porcupine Mountain (1) and Asessippi (4). Brandon has 7 active cases.
In the Interlake, the Eriksdale/Ashern health district has 2 active cases, while Fisher/Peguis has 10.
