75 new cases of COVID-19 identified in the province today. Four cases have been removed due to a data correction. This brings the net-new number of cases today to 71. Three additional deaths reported due to the virus.
Those who died from COVID-19 are identified as:
- a male in his 60s from the Prairie Mountain Health region,
- a female in her 60s from the Winnipeg health region, and
- a female in her 70s from the Winnipeg health region.
The five-day test positivity rate is currently 5.4 per cent provincially and 4.3 per cent in Winnipeg.
The total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba is 30,360.
Today’s cases are from the following health regions:
- three cases in the Interlake-Eastern health region;
- 16 cases in the Northern health region;
- zero cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region;
- five cases in the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region; and
- 51 cases in the Winnipeg health region.
There are currently 1,597 active cases of COVID-19 in Manitoba with 27,910 people listed as recovered.
266 people are being treated in the hospital of which 104 are considered infectious. 33 people with the virus are in Intensive Care Units with 15 of them still considered infectious.
853 Manitobans have died since COVID-19 first arrived in the province.
1,322 tests were completed yesterday. Since the virus first arrived in February 2020, there have been 492,213 tests completed.
Manitoba Public Health announced that the B.117 COVID-19 variant, also known as the U.K. variant, has been identified in a Manitoba case. Officials say the case involved international travel and the individual has since recovered. There were five contacts related to the case but none have resulted in a case.
Manitoba also announced new public health orders that loosen restrictions as of Friday February 12.
LINK | New public health orders loosen restrictions
LINK | Manitoba COVID-19 Dashboard
