Public health officials advise two additional deaths in people with COVID-19 have been reported today including:

• A female in her 70s from the Northern health region and linked to the outbreak at Thompson General Hospital MSP ward; and
• A female in her 80s from the Prairie Mountain Health region and linked to the outbreak at Fairview Personal Care Home.

The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 12.6 per cent provincially and 11.9 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30 a.m. today, 130 new cases of the virus have been identified, which brings the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 24,513.

Today’s COVID-19 data shows:

• 11 cases in the Interlake-Eastern health region;
• 11 cases in the Northern health region;
• 8 cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region;
• 8 cases in the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region; and
• 92 cases in the Winnipeg health region.

The data also shows:

• 4,444 active cases and 19,408 individuals who have recovered from COVID-19
• there are 248 people in hospital with active COVID-19 as well as 89 people in hospital with COVID-19 who are no longer infectious but continue to require care, for a total of 337 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 661.

Laboratory testing numbers show 1,193 tests were completed yesterday, bringing the total number of lab tests completed since early February to 419,542. Case investigations continue and if a public health risk is identified, the public will be notified.