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7 Deaths & 130 Cases
There are also 130 new cases of the virus, including 77 in Winnipeg.
4,427 cases are active, 20,252 people have recovered, for a total of 25,374 cases so far.
339 Manitobans are in hospital right now, 40 of them in the ICU.
The five day test positivity rate in the province is 10.7 per cent. Winnipeg s rate is 11.5 per cent. 1,264 tests were done in the last 24 hours for a total of 428,753 since the pandemic began.
The death toll now sits at 695.
but as governor, i operate on the numbers and i operate on the science. the numbers say you could have as many as 40,000 icu patients, which require ventilators. reporter: it s not just new york. in louisiana, cases spiked 19% in the past 24 hours. now more than 2,700 people testing positive. the governor warning new orleans will run out of ventilators by early next week. we have put in, many days ago, orders for 12,000 ventilators. to date we have received exactly 192. reporter: tonight, president trump finally exercising his powers under the defense production act, signing an order requiring general motors to start producing ventilators. after attacking the company earlier on twitter. we will not hesitate to use the full authority of the federal government to combat this crisis.