On Wednesday health officials in Manitoba announced 71 new cases of COVID-19 and 17 variants of concern.
There was one death reported, a man in his 80s from the Winnipeg health region.
Today’s new non-variant COVID-19 cases are in the following health districts:
• two cases in the Interlake–Eastern health region
• 24 cases in the Northern health region
• two cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region
• five cases in the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region
• 38 cases in the Winnipeg health region
Today’s new variant cases are in the following health districts:
• four cases in the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region; and
• 13 cases in the Winnipeg health region
There have been a total of 34,122 cases of COVID-19 identified in the province, and 935 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic.
There are 1,181 active cases and 32,006 individuals who have recovered from COVID-19.
The total number of confirmed variant of concern cases of B.1.1.7 is 232, the total number of variant of concern cases of B.1.351 is 120, and the total number of variant of concern cases that have not been categorized is 15, bringing the total number of confirmed variant of concern cases to 267.
There are 63 people in the hospital with COVID-19 and 83 people in hospital with COVID-19 who are no longer infectious but continue to require care, for a total of 146 hospitalizations.
There are 12 people in intensive care units with active COVID-19 and 16 people with COVID-19 who are no longer infectious but continue to require critical care, for a total of 28 ICU patients.
According to the province’s data, there are active cases of COVID-19 in the following Parkland health districts: Dauphin (0), Riding Mountain (1), Duck Mountain (1), Porcupine Mountain (28), Asessippi (3). Brandon has 1 active cases.
In the Interlake, the Eriksdale/Ashern health district has no active cases of COVID-19. Fisher/Peguis health district has Five active cases.
