Public health officials announced 71 new cases of COVID-19 today and one death.
Today’s death was a woman in her 20’s from Winnipeg. Officials haven’t confirmed whether she had any underlying health issues.
Today’s new COVID-19 cases are in the following health regions:
• three cases in Interlake–Eastern health region
• 45 cases in the Northern health region
• zero cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region
• five cases in the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region
• 18 cases in the Winnipeg health region
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 3.1 percent provincially and 2.2 percent in Winnipeg.
The total number of cases identified in Manitoba is 32,170. There have been a total of 905 deaths.
There are 1,114 active cases and 30,151 people have recovered from COVID-19.
There are 46 people in hospital with active COVID-19 and 112 people in hospital who are no longer infectious but continue to require care, for a total of 158 hospitalizations.
Nine people are in intensive care units with active COVID-19 as well as 14 people who are no longer infectious but continue to require critical care, for a total of 23 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.
