2 Deaths, 173 Cases

Manitoba Post StaffNews

WINNIPEG – The province is reporting two deaths today from COVID-19, one of them in Winnipeg.

There are 173 new cases of the virus, including 56 in Winnipeg.

3,261 cases are active, 24,204 people have recovered, for a total of 28,260 cases so far.

274 Manitobans are in hospital right now, 39 of them in the ICU.

The five day test positivity rate in the province is 9.3 per cent. Winnipeg’s rate is 6.2. 2,070 tests were done in the last 24 hours for a total of 461,250 since the pandemic began.

The death toll now sits at 795.