Manitoba COVID-19 Update: 737 in hospital, 491 new cases, 7 deaths

Manitoba recorded two more hospitalizations due to COVID-19 today (Tues), for a total of 737.

Total ICU patients with the virus is at 54 – a decrease of two.

According to the provincial Dashboard, 491 new cases were identified: 234 in the Winnipeg Health Region, 92 in the Northern Health Region, 68 in the Prairie Mountain Health Region, 52 in the Southern Health Region, and 45 in the Interlake-Eastern Health Region. That brings total cases to 121,131.

Seven more deaths were recorded for a total of 1,569.

There are 32,013 active cases in Manitoba, and a total of 87,549 recoveries.

An additional 1,716 COVID-19 tests were added to the Dashboard and the provincial test positivity rate is 30.1 percent.

The COVID-19 Dashboard for Manitoba is available here.

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