There are new cases of COVID-19 in Manitoba on Wednesday, the province said in a press release.
Thirty of those cases are in the Winnipeg Health Region, he said.
Six of the new instances are in the Southern Fitness Region, 3 in the Prairie Mountain Health Region, two in the East Interlake Health Region and the last in the Northern Health Region, he said.
The positivity rate of Manitoba’s COVID-19 tests, a five-day moving average of the number of tests that test positive, increased to 2. 2% from 1. 8% on Tuesday, he said.
There are 11 other people hospitalized with COVID-19 in Manitoba, five of whom are under intensive care.
A resident of Winnipeg’s Parkview Place Care Home died as a result of COVID-19, the company that manages the house, showed Tuesday The death of the person, which was not included in the province update, is the nineteenth coronavirus-related death in Manitoba.
On Tuesday, seven citizens and one member of a nursing home tested positive for COVID-19.
The outbreak at Rideau Park Personal Care Home in Brandon, Manitoba, is over, he said. The site has gone from critical red to yellow warning in the province’s color-coded pandemic reaction system.
Currently, there are 418 active cases of COVID-19 in Manitoba, 335 of which, 80 consistent with percent, in Winnipeg. To date, 1,674 cases of the disease have been known in the province and another 1,238 people have recovered.