Today health officials announced three more deaths due to COVID-19 and 51 new cases.
Today’s three deaths include two men and a woman from the Winnipeg health region.
The province also announced the outbreak at the McCreary/Alonsa Health Centre in McCreary has been declared over.
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 3.8 percent provincially and 3.2 percent in Winnipeg.
Today’s new COVID-19 cases are in the following health regions:
• three cases in Interlake–Eastern health region
• 30 cases in the Northern health region
• zero cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region
• three cases in the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region
• 15 cases in the Winnipeg health region
No new cases of COVID-19 variants have been identified in the province today.
There have been a total of 32,000 cases of the virus identified in Manitoba. The total number of deaths is 901.
There are 1,146 active cases in Manitoba and 29,953 people have recovered from the virus.
There are 70 people in hospital with active COVID-19 and 116 people in hospital who are no longer infectious but continue to require care, for a total of 186 hospitalizations.
There are 10 people in intensive care units with active COVID-19 and 14 people who are no longer infectious but continue to require critical care, for a total of 24 ICU patients.
According to the province’s data, there are active cases of COVID-19 in the following Parkland health districts: Dauphin (0), Riding Mountain (0), Duck Mountain (2), Porcupine Mountain (2) and Asessippi (4). Brandon has 2 active cases.
In the Interlake, the Eriksdale/Ashern health district has 2 active cases, while Fisher/Peguis has 7.
