Manitoba health officials announced 111 new cases of COVID-19 and no new deaths today.
Officials are confirming 13 new cases of the B.1.1.7 COVID-19 variant of concern first detected in the U.K., and one case of the B.1.351 variant first detected in South Africa.
The number of variant cases reported in Manitoba is 55.
There have been a total of 32,903 cases province-wide. The number of deaths is 917.
Today’s new COVID-19 cases are from the following health regions:
• one case in Interlake–Eastern health region
• 71 cases in the Northern health region
• three cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region
• five cases in the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region
• 31 cases in the Winnipeg health region
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 5.2 percent provincially and 3.7 percent in Winnipeg.
There are 989 active cases and 30,997 people have recovered from COVID-19.
There are 58 people in hospital with active COVID-19 and 93 people in who are no longer infectious but continue to require care, for a total of 151 hospitalizations.
There are 10 people in intensive care units with active COVID-19 and 12 people with COVID-19 who are no longer infectious but continue to require critical care, for a total of 22 ICU patients.
According to the province’s data, there are active cases of COVID-19 in the following Parkland health districts: Dauphin (0), Duck Mountain (2), Porcupine Mountain (3), Asessippi (2), and Little Saskatchewan (6). 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.
