Manitoba health officials announced 66 new cases of COVID-19 and one death today.
Today’s death is a woman in her 70’s from Winnipeg.
Officials have confirmed five additional cases of the B.1.1.7 variant first identified in the U.K., and eight additional cases of the B.1.351 variant first identified in South Africa. All of the variant cases are in Winnipeg.
This takes the number of variant cases identified in Manitoba to 22.
Today’s new COVID-19 cases are in the following health districts:
• four cases in Interlake–Eastern health region;
• 36 cases in the Northern health region;
• zero cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region;
• seven cases in the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region; and
• 19 cases in the Winnipeg health region.
There are 1,153 active cases and 30,290 people who have recovered from COVID-19.
There are 55 people in hospital with active COVID-19 as well as 108 people in hospital who are no longer infectious but continue to require care, for a total of 163 hospitalizations.
There are 10 people in intensive care units with active COVID-19 and 12 people who are no longer infectious but continue to require critical care, for a total of 22 ICU patients.
The total number of deaths in people with COVID-19 in Manitoba is 907. Due to a data correction, one death that had been reported earlier has been removed.
There have been a total of 32,350 cases of COVID-19 reported province-wide.
According to the province’s data, there are active cases of COVID-19 in the following Parkland health districts: Dauphin (0), Duck Mountain (1), Porcupine Mountain (2), Whitemud (1), and Asessippi (4). Brandon has 1 active case.
In the Interlake, the Eriksdale/Ashern health district has 2 active cases, while Fisher/Peguis has 4.
