Public health officials advise no new deaths in people with COVID-19 have been reported today.
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 6.3 per cent provincially and 5.8 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30 a.m. today, 61 new cases of the virus have been identified. The total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 56,097.
Today’s COVID-19 data shows:
• six cases in the Interlake–Eastern health region;
• 15 cases in the Northern health region;
• zero cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region;
• 11 cases in the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region; and
• 29 cases in the Winnipeg health region.
The dashboard for COVID-19 in Manitoba can be found here.
The data also shows:
• 1,408 active cases and 53,550 individuals who have recovered from COVID-19;
• 181 Manitobans hospitalized with COVID-19 in Manitoba and neighbouring provinces including:
90 people in hospital in Manitoba with active COVID-19 as well as 81 people in hospital with COVID-19 who are no longer infectious, amounting to a total of 171 hospitalizations;
• a total of 59 Manitoba patients receiving intensive care for COVID-19 including:
28 people in intensive care units in Manitoba with active COVID-19 as well as 21 people with COVID-19 who are no longer infectious but continue to require critical care, amounting to a total of 49 ICU patients in Manitoba; and
10 Manitoba patients in intensive care units outside the province, all of whom are in Ontario;
• 36 patients previously receiving care in an out-of-province ICU have now been returned to Manitoba hospitals for further care; and
no COVID-19 patients were transported out of province for care yesterday.
• 1,040 laboratory tests were completed yesterday, bringing the total number of lab tests completed since early February 2020 to 829,192; and
• the total number of deaths in people with COVID-19 is 1,139.
The outbreaks have been declared over at Seven Oaks General Hospital 3U4-7 and the Saul and Claribel Simkin Centre both in Winnipeg.
Possible exposure locations are listed online by region at the province’s #RestartMB Pandemic Response System webpage. For up-to-date information on possible public exposures to COVID-19 in regions, visit www.gov.mb.ca/covid19/updates/flights.html#event and click on your region.
Additional data on variants of concern is updated from Tuesday to Saturday at https://geoportal.gov.mb.ca/. Data related to COVID-19, outbreaks and some downloadable and historic data can also be found at this site.
For up-to-date information on COVID-19 in Manitoba, including the online screening tool, testing criteria and locations, self-isolation requirements, public health fundamentals and the provincial response level on the #RestartMB Pandemic Response System, visit www.manitoba.ca/COVID19.