Public health officials advise six new deaths in a person with COVID-19 have been reported today:

a male in his 50s from the Southern Health - Sante Sud health region, linked to the B.1.1.7 variant of concern;
a female in her 30s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to the B.1.1.7 variant of concern;
a male in his 60s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to an unspecified variant of concern;
a male in his 70s from the Winnipeg health region;
a male in his 70s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to the B.1.1.7 variant of concern; and
a female in her 70s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to the P.1 variant of concern.

 

The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 14.3 per cent provincially and 16.8 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30 a.m. today, 476 new cases of the virus have been identified. However, three cases have been removed due to data correction. This brings the net-new number of cases today to 473 and the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 47,977.