Today 91 new cases of COVID-19 and one new death were announced in Manitoba.
Public health officials are announcing 11 additional confirmed cases of the B.1.1.7. COVID-19 variant of concern first identified in the United Kingdom. Out of these cases, nine are from the Winnipeg Health Region, and two are from the Southern Health Region.
One confirmed case of the B.1.351 COVID-19 variant of concern first identified in South Africa has been detected in the Prairie Mountain Health region today.
The total number of variant cases of concern in the province is 76.
Today’s new COVID-19 cases are in the following health regions:
• four cases in Interlake–Eastern health region
• 42 cases in the Northern health region
• six cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region
• six cases in the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region
• 33 cases in the Winnipeg health region
There have been a total number of 33,085 cases identified and 918 deaths in the province since the start of the pandemic.
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 4.7 per cent provincially and 3.6 per cent in Winnipeg.
There are 1,089 active cases and 31,078 individuals who have recovered from COVID-19.
There are 60 people in hospital with active COVID-19 and 86 people in hospital with COVID-19 who are no longer infectious but continue to require care, for a total of 146 hospitalizations.
There are 11 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 23 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 (4), Porcupine Mountain (4), Asessippi (3), and Little Saskatchewan (4). Brandon has 8 active cases.
In the Interlake, the Eriksdale/Ashern health district has zero active cases, and the Fisher/Peguis health district has five.
