113 new cases of COVID-19 identified in the province today. Five more people died from the virus.
Those who died from COVID-19 are identified as:
- a female in her 70s from Prairie Mountain Health region;
- a female in her 80s from Prairie Mountain Health region, linked to the outbreak at McCreary/Alonsa Health Centre;
- a male in his 80s from Prairie Mountain Health region, linked to the outbreak at the medical unit at the Dauphin Regional Health Centre;
- a female in her 50s from the Winnipeg health region; and
- a female in her 70s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to the outbreak at Concordia Place.
The five-day test positivity rate is currently 10.8 per cent provincially and 6.8 per cent in Winnipeg.
The total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba is 28,810.
Today’s cases are from the following health regions:
- 10 cases in the Interlake-Eastern health region;
- 58 cases in the Northern health region;
- six cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region;
- six cases in the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region; and
- 33 cases in the Winnipeg health region.
There are currently 3,542 active cases of COVID-19 in Manitoba with 24,464 people listed as recovered.
272 people are being treated in the hospital of which 145 are considered infectious. 36 people with the virus are in Intensive Care Units with 23 of them still considered infectious.
804 Manitobans have died since COVID-19 first arrived in the province.
1,595 tests were completed yesterday. Since the virus first arrived in February 2020, there have been 466,635 tests completed.
Outbreaks have been declared over at the Brandon Correctional Centre in Brandon, Woodhaven Manor in Steinbach and the River Ridge II Retirement Residence in Winnipeg.
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