Manitoba sees 66 new COVID cases Tuesday

The Southern Health region is leading with the most new COVID-19 cases in Manitoba Tuesday, with Winnipeg as a close second.

There are 66 new COVID-19 cases in Manitoba. This includes 11 people who are fully vaccinated, five who are partially vaccinated and 50 who are not vaccinated.

New cases include:

• 21 in Southern Health Sante Sud
• 17 in Winnipeg
• 11 in Prairie Mountain
• 11 in the Northern region
• six in Interlake-Eastern

There is a total of 59,822 confirmed cases and 58,009 recoveries, There are 607 active cases. Manitoba's five-day test positivity rate is 2.3 per cent after seeing a recent spike in testing.

Manitoba's total number of deaths remains at 1,206.

There are 71 people in the hospital due to COVID with 35 of those cases being active. In intensive care, there are 14 people, with half being active cases.