Health officials announced 104 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday and one death — a woman in her 80s from a Winnipeg care home.
Dr. Brent Roussin also announced two minor changes to the public health orders:
(1) The first adjustment to the orders will allow outdoor dining on patios at restaurants and licensed premises for groups up to six people from different households. Dr. Roussin says the change was partly motivated unexpectedly warm temperatures being experienced in some parts of the province.
(2) The other amendment to the health orders will amend the mask rules for churches, and no longer require masks be worn while household groups are seated at a service, not singing, and appropriately distanced from other groups.
The adjustments to the health orders go into effect as of Saturday, March 13.
Today’s COVID Numbers
Public health officials are announcing one new confirmed case of the B.1.1.7 variant (U.K. variant) has been detected. The case is from the Winnipeg health region and is related to travel.
The total number of confirmed variant of concern cases of B.1.1.7 (U.K. variant) is 12 and B.1.351 (South Africa variant) is 11, bringing the total number of confirmed variant of concern cases to 23.
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 4.1% provincially and 3% in Winnipeg. The total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba is 32,607.
There are 872 active cases and 30,823 individuals who have recovered from COVID-19.
There are 54 people in hospital with active COVID-19 as well as 100 people in hospital who are no longer infectious but continue to require care (154 hospitalizations total).
There are 10 people in intensive care units with active COVID-19 as well as 12 people who are no longer infectious but continue to require critical care (22 ICU patients total).
The total number of deaths in people with COVID-19 is 912.
Today’s new COVID-19 cases are from the following Manitoba health districts:
• six cases in Interlake–Eastern health region
• 51 cases in the Northern health region
• five cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region
• five cases in the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region
• 37 cases in the Winnipeg health region
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 (2), Asessippi (0), and Little Saskatchewan (6). Brandon has 5 active cases.
In the Interlake, the Eriksdale/Ashern health district has 0 active cases, while Fisher/Peguis has 2.
