Health officials announced 54 new cases of COVID-19 today and one more death.
One of the new cases has been identified as a variant of concern, the B.1.351 variant first reported in South Africa.
Today’s new COVID-19 cases are in the following health regions:
• two cases in Interlake–Eastern health region
• 33 cases in the Northern health region
• one case in the Prairie Mountain Health region
• four cases in the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region
• 14 cases in the Winnipeg health region
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is three percent provincially and 2.4 percent in Winnipeg.
There has been a total of 32,104 cases province-wide and 904 deaths.
There are 1,133 active cases and 30,067 people who have recovered from COVID-19.
There are 55 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 171 hospitalizations.
Nine people are in intensive care units with active COVID-19 as well as 15 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 4.
