Manitoba health officials announced four additional deaths due to COVID-19 on Sunday, and 119 new cases.
None of the deaths reported are in the Prairie Mountain Health region.
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 7.9% provincially and 4.5% in Winnipeg. The total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba is 29,564.
The provincial data shows 3,503 active cases and 25,232 individuals who have recovered from COVID-19.
There are 108 people in hospital with active COVID-19 as well as 151 people in hospital who are no longer infectious but continue to require care (259 hospitalizations total).
There are 29 people in intensive care units with active COVID-19 as well as 10 people who are no longer infectious but continue to require critical care (39 ICU patients total).
The total number of deaths of people with COVID-19 is 829.
The new cases announced Sunday are from the following health regions:
• 35 cases in Interlake-Eastern health region
• 49 cases in the Northern health region
• two cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region
• six cases in the Southern Health-Santé Sud health region
• 27 cases in the Winnipeg health region
According to the province’s data, there are active cases in the following Parkland health districts: Dauphin (2), Riding Mountain (1), Porcupine Mountain (50), Duck Mountain (2), Asessippi (13), Little Saskatchewan (8), Whitemud (1), and Agassiz Mountain (23, up from 22). Brandon has 43 active cases.
In the Interlake, the Eriksdale/Ashern health district has 69 active cases, while Fisher/Peguis has 75.
Public health officials advise four additional deaths in people with COVID-19 have been reported today, including:
• a male in his 60s from the Interlake-Eastern health region
• a male in his 90s from the Northern health region
• a male in his 60s from the Southern Health – Santé Sud health region, linked to an outbreak at the Rock Lake Hospital in Crystal City
• a female in her 80s from the Southern Health – Santé Sud health region, linked to an outbreak at the Rock Lake Hospital in Crystal City
The directives from public health continue to ask that anyone feeling even mild symptoms of COVID-19 should stay home and self-isolate — and the entire household needs to self-isolate pending COVID-19 test results.
