73 new COVID-19 cases, no deaths reported in Manitoba on Tuesday
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Manitoba reported 73 new COVID-19 cases and no deaths on Tuesday.
More than 40 per cent of the latest cases are in the Southern Health region, which has 31.
The Winnipeg health region has the next highest number with 18, followed by the Prairie Mountain Health region with 15 and the Northern Health Region with nine.
There are no new cases in the Interlake-Eastern health region.
Of the 73 cases reported Tuesday, 49 (67 per cent) are in people who are not vaccinated against COVID-19 and six are in people who were partly vaccinated, the province's dashboard says. The other 18 (25 per cent) are in fully vaccinated people.
Among people hospitalized with active cases of COVID-19, 75 per cent are unvaccinated, while 17 per cent are fully vaccinated.
As for patients in intensive care units with active COVID-19 symptoms, 77 per cent are not vaccinated and 23 per cent are fully vaccinated.
The province's five-day test positivity rate went up to 4.3 per cent Tuesday from 3.9 per cent on Monday.
There is no update on the rate for Winnipeg, which was at 1.7 per cent on Monday.
The Manitoba government no longer holds news conferences or sends news releases on Tuesdays to update case numbers, although some figures are available online. News releases are sent on Mondays and Thursdays.
The total number of deaths in Manitoba since the pandemic started remains at 1,237. That includes 229 due to variants of concern.
There are currently 78 people in hospital due to COVID-19 (down six from Monday), including 17 in intensive care (down three).
The province also identified 249 more cases of variants of concern on its online variant dashboard. There are 166 more cases classified as the B.1.617.2, or delta, variant. There are an additional 83 listed under unidentified variants.
There were 2,145 lab tests completed on Monday, for a total of 1,075,317 since the pandemic started.
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