COVID-19 bulletin #302
Public health officials advise five additional deaths in people with COVID-19 have been reported today including:
• a male in his 70s from the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region;
• a male in his 30s from the Winnipeg health region;
• a female in her 80s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to an outbreak at Lions Housing Centres Personal Care Home;
• a female in her 80s from the Winnipeg health region; and
• a female in her 90s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to an outbreak at the Convalescent Home of Winnipeg.
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 10.5 per cent provincially and 11.3 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30 a.m. today, 101 new cases of the virus have been identified. However, one case was removed due to data correction and brings the net new cases to 100 and the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 25,126.