Manitoba saw its COVID-19 test positivity rate drop below nine per cent June 17 but there were 34 new infections reported in the north, where a pair of health districts saw new cases numbers in the double digits.
Twelve new cases are in The Pas/Opaskwayak/Kelsey health district, where there are now 111 active cases of COVID-19, while there were 10 new cases in the Shamattawa/York Factory/Tataskweyak/Split Lake health district, which now has 51 active cases.
Other northern health districts reporting new cases included Grand Rapids/Misipawistik/Moose Lake/Mosakahiken/Easterville/Chemawawin, with four, Bay Line with three and Thompson/Mystery Lake with two.
183 new cases of the virus were reported in the province, with 90 in Winnipeg, 27 in the southern health region, 20 in the Prairie Mountain health region and 12 in the Interlake-Eastern health region. Seven previously announced cases were removed from the provincial total due to data corrections for a net daily increase of 176 cases.
The five-day test positivity rate June 17 was 8.8 per cent.
One additional COVID-related death was announced Thursday. 1,112 Manitobans have now died from their infections since the pandemic began.
There are 266 people with COVID-19 in hospital in Manitoba, 60 of them in intensive care. There are also 20 in intensive care units in Ontario and Alberta.
The number of northerners in hospital also climbed by four since yesterday, to 17. Fourteen of them have active cases and three are in intensive care, including one with an active infection.
