There are 297 new COVID-19 cases in Manitoba as of Thursday morning.

Public health officials advise eight new deaths in people with COVID-19 have been reported today:
• a female in her 30s from the Prairie Mountain Health region, linked to the B.1.1.7 variant of concern;
• a male in his 60s from the Prairie Mountain Health region, linked to an unspecified variant of concern;
• a male in his 60s from the Winnipeg health region;
• a male in his 60s from the Winnipeg health region;
• a female in her 60s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to the B.1.1.7 variant of concern;
• a male in his 60s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to the B.1.1.7 variant of concern;
• a female in her 80s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to the B.1.1.7 variant of concern; and
• a male in his 80s from the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region.

The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 12.6 per cent provincially and 14 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30 a.m. today, 297 new cases of the virus have been identified. However, two cases have been removed due to data correction. This brings the net-new number of cases today to 295 and the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 49,651.

Today’s COVID-19 data shows:
• 19 cases in the Interlake–Eastern health region;  
• 25 cases in the Northern health region.   
• 19 cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region;   
• 65 cases in the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region; and   
• 169 cases in the Winnipeg health region.
 
The data also shows: 
• 4,639 active cases and 43,970 individuals who have recovered from COVID-19;
• 251 people in hospital with active COVID-19 as well as 73 people in hospital with COVID-19 who are no longer infectious but continue to require care, for a total of 324 hospitalizations;
• 51 people in intensive care units with active COVID-19 as well as 22 people with COVID-19 who are no longer infectious but continue to require critical care, for a total of 73 ICU patients; 
• 3,171 laboratory tests were completed yesterday, bringing the total number of lab tests completed since early February 2020 to 757,719; and
• due to a data correction, one death that had been reported earlier has been removed so the total number of deaths in people with COVID-19 is 1,042; the death was a female in her 90s from the Winnipeg health region and reported May 26.