Public health officials advise one new death in persons with COVID-19 has been reported today, including:
- a female in her 60s from the Prairie Mountain Health region and linked to the B.1.1.7 variant of concern;
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 11.5 per cent provincially and 12.7 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30 a.m. today, 276 new cases of the virus have been identified. However, six cases have been removed due to data correction. This brings the net-new number of cases today to 270 and the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 52,531.
Today’s COVID-19 data shows:
- 26 cases in the Interlake-Eastern health region;
- 15 cases in the Northern health region;
- 22 cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region;
- 54 cases in the Southern Health-Santé Sud health region; and
- 159 cases in the Winnipeg health region.
The data also shows:
- 4,114 active cases and 47,345 individuals who have recovered from COVID-19;
- 333 Manitobans hospitalized with COVID-19 in Manitoba and neighbouring provinces, including:
- 213 people in hospital in Manitoba with active COVID-19 as well as 81 people in hospital with COVID-19 who are no longer infectious, amounting to a total of 294 hospitalizations;
- a total of 102 Manitoba patients receiving intensive care for COVID-19 including:
- 44 people in intensive care units in Manitoba with active COVID-19 as well as 19 people with COVID-19 who are no longer infectious but continue to require critical care, amounting to a total of 63 ICU patients in Manitoba; and
- 39 Manitoba patients in intensive care units outside the province, with 36 in Ontario, one in Saskatchewan and two in Alberta;
- 14 patients previously receiving care in an out of province ICU have now been returned to Manitoba hospitals including one who was repatriated yesterday;
- 2,486 laboratory tests were completed yesterday, bringing the total number of lab tests completed since early February 2020 to 783,911; and
- the total number of deaths in people with COVID-19 is 1,072.
