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NEW Last updated: March 29, 2021

Public health officials advise that no additional deaths in people with COVID-19 are being reported today.

The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 4.2 per cent provincially and 3.3 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30 a.m. today, 53 new cases of the virus have been identified. This brings the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 33,975.

Public health officials are announcing that 136 new screened and sequenced cases of variant of concerns have been detected, five from the Interlake-Eastern health region, 14 from the Southern Health-Santé Sud health region and 117 from the Winnipeg health region.

Today’s COVID-19 data shows:

  • two cases in the Interlake-Eastern health region; 
  • 27 cases in the Northern health region;  
  • two cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region;  
  • one case in the Southern Health-Santé Sud health region; and  
  • 21 cases in the Winnipeg health region.

The data also shows:

  • 1,177 active cases and 31,864 individuals who have recovered from COVID-19; 
  • 66 people in hospital with active COVID-19 as well as 83 people in hospital with COVID-19 who are no longer infectious but continue to require care, for a total of 149 hospitalizations; 
  • 11 people in intensive care units with active COVID-19 as well as 16 people with COVID-19 who are no longer infectious but continue to require critical care, for a total of 27 ICU patients; 
  • the total number of deaths in people with COVID-19 is 934; and
  • the total number of confirmed variant of concern cases of B.1.1.7 is 116, the total number of variant of concern cases of B.1.351 is 14, and the total number of variant of concern cases that have not been categorized is 129, bringing the total number of confirmed variant of concern cases to 259. 

Laboratory testing numbers show 1,685 tests were completed yesterday, bringing the total number of lab tests completed since early February 2020 to 579,262.   

An outbreak has been declared at St. Amant Health & Transition Services in Winnipeg. The facility has been moved to the Critical (red) level on the #RestartMB Pandemic Response System.

The outbreak at Extendicare Tuxedo Villa in Winnipeg has been declared over.

Additional data related to COVID-19, including data on outbreaks as well as some downloadable and historic data, can be found at https://geoportal.gov.mb.ca/.

Possible exposure locations are listed online by region at the province’s #RestartMB Pandemic Response System webpage. For up-to-date information on possible public exposures to COVID-19 in regions, visit www.gov.mb.ca/covid19/updates/flights.html#event and click on your region. 

NEW March 29, 2021 - COVID-19 Bulletin #387


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