Manitoba is reporting a single death and 35 new cases on Monday as the province’s COVID-19 stats continue to show improvement.
The death is a man in his 60s from the Winnipeg health region.
Winnipeg and the Northern region both recorded 16 new cases, two were found in the Interlake, one in the South and none in the Prairie Mountain Health region.
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 3.9% provincially and 3% in Winnipeg. While both are up slightly from Sunday’s update, the numbers continue a downward trend with the provincial rate down from 5.4% and Winnipeg’s rate down from 4.4% last Monday. As of 9:30 a.m. Monday, the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba is 31,894.
Currently, Manitoba is reporting 1,171 active cases including 370 in Winnipeg and 601 in northern Manitoba with 29,827 recoveries.
There are 184 patients in hospital including 25 in intensive care, both numbers include active cases and those no longer considered infectious. The province’s death COVID-19 death toll now sits at 896 and the confirmed total of U.K. variant cases remains at five.
Laboratory numbers show 1,220 tests were completed Sunday, bringing the total number since early February 2020 to 526,593.
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