WINNIPEG

29 new COVID-19 cases in Manitoba Sunday

Mason DePatie CTV Winnipeg Videojournalist

Published Sunday, September 6, 2020 12:06PM CST Last Updated Sunday, September 6, 2020 3:05PM CST

This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, yellow, emerging from the surface of cells, blue/pink, cultured in the lab. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, NIAID-RML

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WINNIPEG -- Provincial health officials have announced 29 new cases of COVID-19 in Manitoba.

This brings the province's total number of lab-confirmed and probable positive cases to 1,323 since early March.

The current test positivity rate now sits at 1.2 per cent.

The new cases announced on Sunday include:

one case in the Interlake-Eastern health region
one case in the Northern health region
three cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region
seven cases in the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region
17 cases in the Winnipeg health region

The province has 409 active cases, and 894 people have recovered from the virus.

According to the COVID-19 bulletin, preliminary investigations show that seven of the cases announced Sunday are close contacts of previously-announced cases and one is from travel. The source of infection could not be identified for four cases.

Thirteen people are in hospital with COVID-19, two of which are in intensive care.

The number of deaths in the province related to COVID-19 remains at 16.

On Saturday, 1,256 tests were performed, bringing the total to 145,468 since early February.

The province also announced that a worker at a senior facility next to Donwood Manor personal care home tested positve for COVID-19.