There’s no update on COVID-19 numbers in Manitoba from health officials today, due to the Louis Riel Day holiday.
We’ll have to wait until tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. for the next COVID bulletin and in-person press conference with public health officials.
There were 100 new cases of COVID-19 identified on Saturday, and 80 on Sunday.
A total of six deaths over the weekend brings the province’s total to 871 deaths due to COVID-19.
Last week Manitoba recorded its first known case of the virus variant first noticed in the U.K. and federal health officials are saying the more contagious variants have now been identified in all ten provinces.
Canada is expecting the flow of vaccines to pick back up soon, after a weeks-long delay in vaccine shipments due to Pfizer-BioNTech took a pause to scale up operations at their manufacturing facility in Europe.
Manitoba reached a testing milestone this weekend and has completed 500,000 tests for COVID-19 at provincial sites.
Dr. Brent Roussin used that as an opportunity to remind Manitobans they must immediately self-isolate and get tested for COVID-19 as soon as they have symptoms, no matter how mild they seem.
The number of active cases in the Dauphin health district is four, according to the latest update from the province on Sunday.
