By Matthew Dekker
Apr 8, 2021 11:33 AM
Public health officials advise that three additional deaths in people with COVID-19 are being reported today:
• a male in his 70s from the Winnipeg health region;
• a female in her 70s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to the outbreak at Holy Family Home; and
• a female in her 80s from the Winnipeg health region.
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 4.8 per cent provincially and 4.6 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30 a.m. today, 139 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 137 and the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 34,793.