COVID-19 bulletin #142
Public health officials advise an eighth death related to COVID-19 has been reported, a man in his 70s from the Southern Health–Santé Sud region. This is a new case reported today and the individual was not hospitalized.
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 0.4 per cent and five new cases of the virus have been identified as of 9:30 a.m. today. This brings the total number of lab-confirmed positive and probable positive cases in Manitoba to 405.
The data shows there were:
- two new cases in the Interlake–Eastern health region;
- one new case in the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region;
- one new case in the Winnipeg health region; and
- one new case in the Prairie Mountain Health region.