Manitoba Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Brent Roussin announced this afternoon 344 new cases of COVID-19 with a five day test positivity rate of 14.5 percent. He also announced 14 additional deaths including nine in the Winnipeg region, two each in Interlake Eastern and Southern Health and one in Prairie Mountain health region.  He added they continue to do their work on contact tracing noting their contact tracing calls are continuing, they continue to see good results and are reaching cases and contacts in a timely fashion and public health has developed a new contact tracing tool and this is a form that will be available at the testing sight for Manitobans to list their contacts at that time.

Of the 344 new cases 178 are in the Winnipeg region and a new high of 73 in the Northern Health with this regions active cases including 13 in the Flin Flon, Snow Lake, Cranberry Portage, Sherridan district, 179 in The Pas, OCN, Kelsey district and 27 in the Thompson District.