50 new cases of COVID-19 identified in the province today. No deaths reported today due to the virus.
The five-day test positivity rate is currently 4.8 per cent provincially and 3.5 per cent in Winnipeg.
The total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba is 32,793.
Today’s cases are from the following health regions:
- zero cases in the Interlake-Eastern health region;
- 16 cases in the Northern health region;
- zero cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region;
- three cases in the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region; and
- 31 cases in the Winnipeg health region.
There are currently 908 active cases of COVID-19 in Manitoba with 30,968 people listed as recovered.
151 people are being treated in the hospital of which 56 are considered infectious. 23 people with the virus are in Intensive Care Units with 11 of them still considered infectious.
There are 18 confirmed cases of the B.1.1.7 COVID-19 variant of concern detected today. One case is from the Interlake-Eastern health region and 17 from the Winnipeg health region.
The total number of confirmed variant of concern cases of B.1.1.7 is 30 and B.1.351 is 11, bringing the total number of confirmed variant of concern cases to 41.
917 Manitobans have died since COVID-19 first arrived in the province.
1,516 tests were completed yesterday. Since the virus first arrived in February 2020, there have been 551,209 tests completed.
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