Public health officials advise five additional deaths in people with COVID-19 have been reported today including:
• a female in her 70s from the Winnipeg health region;
• a female in her 80s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to the outbreak at the Holy Family Home;
• a male in his 80s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to the outbreak at Oakview Extended Care Facility;
• a female in her 90s from the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region, linked to the outbreak at the Portage District General Hospital; and
• a female in her 90s from the Winnipeg health region and linked to the outbreak at the Convalescent Home.

The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 12.4 per cent provincially and 12.1 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30 a.m. today, 133 new cases of the virus have been identified, which brings the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 24,385.

Today’s COVID-19 data shows:
• six cases in the Interlake–Eastern health region;
• three cases in the Northern health region;
• five cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region;
• 22 cases in the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region; and
• 97 cases in the Winnipeg health region.

The data also shows:
• 4,424 active cases and 19,302 individuals who have recovered from COVID-19;
• there are 246 people in hospital with active COVID-19 as well as 92 people in hospital with COVID-19 who are no longer infectious but continue to require care, for a total of 338 hospitalizations;
• there are 32 people in intensive care units with active COVID-19 as well as four people with COVID-19 who are no longer infectious but continue to require critical care for a total of 36 ICU patients; and
• the total number of deaths due to COVID-19 is 659.