The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 10.5 per cent provincially and 12.6 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30am on May 8, 2021, 488 new cases of the virus have been identified. However, three cases have been removed due to data correction. This brings the net-new number of cases today to 485 and the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 41,425.