53 new cases of COVID-19 identified in the province today. No deaths were reported today due to the virus.
The five-day test positivity rate is currently 4.2 per cent provincially and 3.3 per cent in Winnipeg.
The total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba is 33,975.
Today’s cases are from the following health regions:
- two cases in the Interlake-Eastern health region;
- 27 cases in the Northern health region;
- two cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region;
- one case in the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region; and
- 21 cases in the Winnipeg health region.
There are currently 1,177 active cases of COVID-19 in Manitoba with 31,864 people listed as recovered.
149 people are being treated in the hospital of which 66 are considered infectious. 27 people with the virus are in Intensive Care Units with 19 of them still considered infectious.
The total number of confirmed variant of concern cases of B.1.1.7 is 116 and B.1.351 is 14. 129 variant of concern cases have not been categorized bringing the total number of confirmed variant of concern cases to 259.
Public health officials say that of the 136 new screened and sequenced variant of concern cases five are from the Interlake-Eastern health region, 14 from the Southern health region and 117 from the Winnipeg health region.
934 Manitobans have died since COVID-19 first arrived in the province.
1,685 tests were completed yesterday. Since the virus first arrived in February 2020, there have been 579,262 tests completed.
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