Manitoba has 24 new cases of COVID-19 and one death on Tuesday, the provincial COVID-19 website says. There are 12 cases in the Winnipeg health region, six in the Southern Health region, three in the Interlake-Eastern health region, three in the Northern Health Region and none in the Prairie Mountain Health region. There are currently 565 active cases of COVID-19 in the province and 56,318 people have recovered. The province also identified 39 more cases linked to highly transmissible coronavirus variants, according to the online variant dashboard, which was last updated Friday. AY.3, which was previously only present in the Interlake-Eastern health region, is now in the Southern Health region as well.

Source: CBC News August 17, 2021 17:30 UTC