Manitoba Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Brent Roussin announced this afternoon our current five day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 14 percent provincially and 14 percent in Winnipeg and there are 349 new cases bringing our total number of cases to 14,907.  He noted the number of deaths related to COVID-19 is at 256 and due to a data entry error one death that had been reported earlier has been removed.                                           

Of the new cases 213 are in the Winnipeg region and 73 in Southern Health with lower numbers in other regions including 30 in the Northern health region. The nine additional deaths reported include five in the Winnipeg region and four in Southern Health.

Dr. Roussin says he is disappointed about people driving outside the province to do shopping emphasizing the need to stay home to reduce these numbers and reduce the stress on our health system.