The province is reporting three more deaths due to COVID-19, increasing the toll to 1,056.
They include;
– a woman in her 50s from the Winnipeg health region;
– a man in his 60s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to the B.1.1.7 variant of concern; and
– a woman in her 80s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to the B.1.1.7 variant of concern.
Health officials also announced 232, however, six cases have been removed due to data correction. This brings the net-new number of cases today to 226 and the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 51,316.
Of the new cases; five are in Prairie Mountain health, 10 in the Interlake-Eastern health region, 13 in the Northern health region, 36 in Southern health, and 168 in the Winnipeg health region.
In Prairie Mountain Health, 262 cases remain active, 40 of which are in Brandon, and across Manitoba there are 4,333. There’s also a total of 305 covid patients currently in hospital, and 72 in intensive care units. The current five-day test positivity rate decreased slightly to 12 per cent provincially, down from 12.1 on Monday (May 31).
Meantime, the total number of variant of concern cases in Manitoba increased by 598 to 11,204. Of those, 949 have been discovered in Prairie Mountain Health.
The province also says that an outbreak has been declared in the Surgery Unit at the Dauphin Regional Health Centre. The facility has been moved to the critical level red on Manitoba’s pandemic response system.
