Public health officials advise two additional deaths in people with COVID-19 have been reported today:
• a female in her 90s from the Winnipeg health region; and
• a female in her 90s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to the outbreak at Charleswood Care Centre.
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 5.4 per cent provincially and 4.4 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30 a.m. today, 97 new cases of the virus have been identified. This brings the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 31,483.
Case investigations continue and if a public health risk is identified, the public will be notified.
Today’s COVID-19 data shows:
• four cases in Interlake–Eastern health region;
• 36 cases in the Northern health region;
• one case in the Prairie Mountain Health region;
• two cases in the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region; and
• 54 cases in the Winnipeg health region.
The data also shows:
• 1,219 active cases and 29,378 individuals who have recovered from COVID-19;
• 78 people in hospital with active COVID-19 as well as 128 people in hospital with COVID-19 who are no longer infectious but continue to require care, for a total of 206 hospitalizations;
• 14 people in intensive care units with active COVID-19 as well as 18 people with COVID-19 who are no longer infectious but continue to require critical care, for a total of 32 ICU patients;
• the total number of deaths in people with COVID-19 is 886; and
• the total number of confirmed variant of concern cases is four.
