261 new cases of COVID-19 were identified in the province today. It was also announced that two more people have died from COVID-19.
Those who died from the virus have been identified as:
- a male in his 60 from the Winnipeg health region; and
- a male in his 90s from Prairie Mountain Health region and linked to the outbreak at the McCreary/Alonsa Health Centre.
The five-day test positivity rate is 10 per cent provincially and 7.1 per cent in Winnipeg.
The total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba is 26,954.
Today’s cases are from the following health regions:
- 11 cases in the Interlake-Eastern health region
- 139 cases in the Northern health region
- 23 cases in Prairie Mountain health region
- 13 cases in the Southern health region
- 75 cases in the Winnipeg health region
There are currently 2,886 active cases of COVID-19 in Manitoba with 23,313 people who have been listed as recovered.
290 are being treated in the hospital of which 117 are considered infectious. 37 people with the virus are in Intensive Care Units with 16 of them still considered infectious.
755 Manitobans have died since COVID-19 first arrived in the province.
2,333 tests were completed yesterday. Since the virus first arrived in February 2020, there have been 446,018 tests completed.
An outbreak has been declared at Rock Lake Hospital in Crystal City.
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