Health officials are reporting four deaths and 167 new cases of COVID-19 over a two-day period.
Today’s numbers have been combined with yesterday’s as there was no COVID-19 bulletin due to the Louis Riel holiday.
71 cases were identified on Monday, and 96 were identified today.
The four deaths announced are all from Winnipeg.
Today’s new COVID-19 cases are in the following health region:
• 13 cases in Interlake–Eastern health region
• 93 cases in the Northern health region
• two cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region
• eight cases in the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region
• 51 cases in the Winnipeg health region
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 5.9 percent provincially and 4.5 percent in Winnipeg.
There have been a total of 30,932 cases reported province-wide. The total number of deaths is 875.
There are 1,625 active cases in the province and 28,432 people have recovered from COVID-19.
There are 86 people in hospital with active COVID-19 and 144 people in hospital who are no longer infectious but continue to require care, for a total of 230 hospitalizations.
There are 13 people in intensive care units with active COVID-19 and 13 people who are no longer infectious but continue to require critical care, for a total of 26 ICU patients.
According to the province’s data, there are active cases in the following Parkland health districts:
Dauphin (1), Riding Mountain (0), Swan River (0), Porcupine Mountain (5), Duck Mountain (0), Asessippi (14), Little Saskatchewan (0), Whitemud (0), and Agassiz Mountain (1). Brandon has 11 active cases.
In the Interlake, the Eriksdale/Ashern health district has 13 active cases, while Fisher/Peguis has 28.
