Two new COVID-19 cases have been reported in the province increasing Manitoba’s total to 318, in the Prairie Mountain Health region the total is still 26.
Health officials say there are 11 active cases, no COVID patients are in the hospital of the ICU. The number of deaths related to the virus remains at seven, while 300 people have recovered.
The two newest cases involve a man in his 30s related to travel, and a woman in her 50s connected to contact with a previously known case. Both cases were from the Winnipeg Health region.
Meanwhile the Manitoba government has issued several new public health orders which include;
– remove restrictions on travel to northern Manitoba and remote communities;
– remove the requirement for people coming to Manitoba to work on film productions to self-isolate for 14 days before entering the province;
– clarify the only sports teams exempt from self-isolation requirements are professional sports teams from Manitoba and remove the requirement for Manitoba sports teams to self-isolate for 14 days before returning to Manitoba; and
– permit individuals who are self-isolating under federal or provincial health orders to visit a family member or friend who has a life-threatening disease in a health-care facility, if the facility permits them to do so and they are not displaying symptoms of COVID-19.
As of Thursday (June 25) a total of 60,775 tests have been performed at the Cadham Provincial Lab.