ublic health officials advise one additional death in a person with COVID-19 has been reported today:
- a female in her 20s from the Winnipeg health region.
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 3.1 per cent provincially and 2.2 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30 a.m. today, 71 new cases of the virus have been identified. However, five cases have been removed due to data correction. This brings the net-new number of cases today to 66 and the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 32,170.
Case investigations continue and if a public health risk is identified, the public will be notified.
Today’s COVID-19 data shows:
- three cases in Interlake-Eastern health region;
- 45 cases in the Northern health region;
- zero cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region;
- five cases in the Southern Health-Santé Sud health region; and
- 18 cases in the Winnipeg health region.
The data also shows:
- 1,114 active cases and 30,151 individuals who have recovered from COVID-19;
- 46 people in hospital with active COVID-19 as well as 112 people in hospital with COVID-19 who are no longer infectious but continue to require care, for a total of 158 hospitalizations;
- nine people in intensive care units with active COVID-19 as well as 14 people with COVID-19 who are no longer infectious but continue to require critical care, for a total of 23 ICU patients;
- the total number of deaths in people with COVID-19 is 905; and
- the total number of confirmed variant of concern cases of B.1.1.7 is six and B.1.351 is three, bringing the total number of confirmed variant of concern cases to nine.
