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Health officials announced 179 new cases of COVID-19 and three deaths Friday.
The deaths being reported today are a man in his 20s from the Northern Health region, a man in his 60s from the Winnipeg Health region and a woman in her 70s from the Winnipeg Health region.
Nine cases were added in the Prairie Mountain Health region today.
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 5.5 per cent provincially and 5.1 per cent in Winnipeg. The total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba is 34,969.
Officials have detected another 37 variants of concern, 33 of which are cases of the B.1.1.7 variant. Of the 33 cases, 28 are in Winnipeg, one is in the Interlake–Eastern Health region, three from the Prairie Mountain Health region, and one from the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region.
Four new uncategorized cases of variants of concern have been detected with one from the Interlake–Eastern Health region and three from the Winnipeg Health region.
There are 1,180 active cases and 32,840 individuals who have recovered from COVID-19.
There are 56 people in hospital with active COVID-19 as well as 80 people in hospital with COVID-19 who are no longer infectious but continue to require care, for a total of 136 hospitalizations.
There are 14 people in intensive care units with active COVID-19 and 21 people with COVID-19 who are no longer infectious but continue to require critical care, for a total of 35 ICU patients.
Today’s new COVID-19 cases are in the following health regions:
• two cases in the Interlake–Eastern health region
• 84 cases in the Northern health region
• nine cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region
• seven cases in the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region
• 77 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: Swan River (4), Dauphin (0), Riding Mountain (1), Duck Mountain (4), Agassiz Mountain (0), Porcupine Mountain (31), Asessippi (10). Brandon has six active cases.
In the Interlake, the Eriksdale/Ashern health district has no active cases of COVID-19. The Fisher/Peguis health district has two active cases.
