As of Tuesday, 75.1 per cent of Manitobans have received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, while 51.5 per cent have received their second dose.

All Manitobans are now eligible to book their second dose.

Our province was aiming for 75 per cent of Manitobans to get their first dose and 50 per cent their second dose by August long weekend. As part of Manitoba's reopening strategy, reaching those targets will mean that businesses, services and facilities can open at 50 per cent capacity or greater levels. The province has yet to announce when that will take effect.

Meantime, public health officials advise one new death in a person with COVID-19 is being reported today:
- a male in his 70s from the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region.

The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 5.9 per cent provincially and 5.7 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30 a.m. today, 36 new cases of the virus have been identified. However, two cases were removed due to data corrections. This brings the net-new number of cases today to 34 and the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 56,516.

Of the 36 cases reported today, the COVID-19 data shows:
- five new cases in the Interlake–Eastern health region;
- two new cases in the Northern health region;
- two new cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region;
- three new cases in the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region; and
- 24 new cases in the Winnipeg health region.

The data also shows:
- 972 active cases and 54,392 individuals who have recovered from COVID-19;
- 155 Manitobans hospitalized with COVID-19 in Manitoba and neighbouring provinces including:
 - 63 people in hospital in Manitoba with active COVID-19 as well as 86 people in hospital with COVID-19 who are no longer infectious, amounting to a total of 149 hospitalizations;
- a total of 42 Manitoba patients receiving intensive care for COVID-19 including:
 - 15 people in intensive care units in Manitoba with active COVID-19 as well as 21 people with COVID-19 who are no longer infectious but continue to require critical care, amounting to a total of 36 ICU patients in Manitoba; and
 - six Manitoba patients in intensive care units outside the province, all of whom are in Ontario;
- 39 patients previously receiving care in an out-of-province ICU have now been returned to Manitoba hospitals for further care; and
 - no COVID-19 patients were transported out of province for care yesterday.
- 989 laboratory tests were completed yesterday, bringing the total number of lab tests completed since early February 2020 to 837,996; and
- the total number of deaths in people with COVID-19 is 1,152.

Possible exposure locations are listed online by region at the province’s #RestartMB Pandemic Response System webpage. For up-to-date information on possible public exposures to COVID-19 in regions, visit www.gov.mb.ca/covid19/updates/flights.html#event and click on your region.

Additional data on variants of concern is updated from Tuesday to Saturday at https://geoportal.gov.mb.ca/. Data related to COVID-19, outbreaks and some downloadable and historic data can also be found at this site.

For up-to-date information on COVID-19 in Manitoba, including the online screening tool, testing criteria and locations, self-isolation requirements, public health fundamentals and the provincial response level on the #RestartMB Pandemic Response System, visit www.manitoba.ca/COVID19.