Manitoba Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Brent Roussin announced 181 new cases of COVID-19 since Friday bringing the five day test positivity rate to 5 percent.  He also announced two additional deaths with one each in the Winnipeg and Interlake Eastern health regions. Of today’s 31 new cases 20 are in the Winnipeg region with single digits in other regions including three in Northern health. Roussin says we’re still seeing some numbers in the 70s or 80s and of course we want to see these numbers drop as far down as we can get them but we know that with the vaccine uptake that we’re getting we’re going to see that and we’re going to see a decline in active cases but we’re not done with the virus yet, we are dealing with the Delta variant so we still have to be cognizant of this virus and have to take care to ensure we’re not having large spreading events and we have to ensure that Manitobans get vaccinated at that fast pace they have been doing up to now.

              The COVID-19 dashboard indicates no active cases in the Flin Flon, Snow Lake, Cranberry Portage, Sherridon District.