Today Manitoba health officials expanded the COVID-19 vaccine eligibility criteria.
Manitobans aged 73 and older, and First Nations people aged 53 and older can now book vaccine appointments at all five supersites in the province in Winnipeg, Brandon, Selkirk, Thompson, and Morden, and at vaccine pop-up clinics.
To book an appointment you can call 1-844-626-8222. Manitobans can now book appointments at vaccine supersites online by clicking here.
Today public health officials announced 96 new cases of COVID-19 and no new deaths today.
Public health officials are announcing nine additional confirmed cases of the B.1.1.7 COVID-19 variant of concern first identified in the United Kingdom. The cases identified today are all from the Winnipeg health region.
The total number of variant cases identified in the province is 46.
Today’s new COVID-19 cases are in the following health regions:
• two cases in Interlake-Eastern health region
• 51 cases in the Northern health region
• one case in Prairie Mountain Health
• two cases in Southern Health-Santé Sud
• 40 cases in the Winnipeg health region
There have been a total of 32,996 cases identified and 917 deaths in the province since the start of the pandemic.
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 4.4 percent provincially and 3.4 percent in Winnipeg.
There are 1,035 active cases and 31,044 people have recovered from COVID-19.
There are 61 people in hospital with active COVID-19 and 88 people in hospital who are no longer infectious but continue to require care, for a total of 149 hospitalizations.
There are 10 people in intensive care units with active COVID-19 and 11 people who are no longer infectious but continue to require critical care, for a total of 21 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 (5). Brandon has 8 active cases.
In the Interlake, the Eriksdale/Ashern health district has one active case, and the Fisher/Peguis health district has four.
