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Sunday COVID-19 update: No new Manitoba cases

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, orange, emerging from the surface of cells, gray, cultured in the lab. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-NIAID-RML via AP.

According to Manitoba health officials, there have been no new cases of COVID-19 reported in Manitoba as of Sunday morning.

The total number of lab-confirmed positive and probable positive cases in Manitoba remains at 253.

There are still more recovered cases, at 143, than active cases, which are at 105.

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Eight people are currently hospitalized, which includes five patients in intensive care.

The number of people who have died remains at five.

Cadham Provincial Laboratory performed 570 tests on Saturday. A total of 19,752 tests have been performed since early February.

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