Health officials reported 44 new cases of COVID-19 and one death on Sunday.
The death of a man in his 70s at the Southeast Personal Care Home in the Winnipeg health region brings the number of people to die with COVID-19 in Manitoba to 917.
None of today’s new cases have been identified as variants of concern. There have been 23 total cases of variants of concern — 12 of the B.1.17 (UK) variant and 11 of the B.1.351 (South Africa) variant.
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 4.5% provincially and 3.1% in Winnipeg. The total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba is 32,743.
There are 891 active cases and 30,935 individuals who have recovered from COVID-19 in Manitoba.
There are 55 people in hospital with active COVID-19 as well as 93 people in hospital who are no longer infectious but continue to require care, for a total of 148 hospitalizations.
There are 12 people in intensive care units with active COVID-19 as well as 11 people who are no longer infectious but continue to require critical care, for a total of 23 ICU patients.
Today’s new COVID cases are from the following health districts:
• two cases in Interlake-Eastern health region
• 14 cases in the Northern health region
• two cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region
• three cases in the Southern Health-Santé Sud health region
• 23 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 (1), Asessippi (1), and Little Saskatchewan (7). Brandon has 9 active cases.
In the Interlake, the Eriksdale/Ashern health district has no active cases, and the Fisher/Peguis health district has four.
