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To date, 56,044 doses of vaccine have been administered including 34,859 first doses and 21,185 second doses. More than two per cent of Manitobans have now received both doses of COVID-19 vaccine.

The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 5.9 per cent provincially and 4.5 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30am on February 16, 2021, 167 new cases of the virus have been identified. These include cases from the holiday Monday and Tuesday. However, one case has been removed due to a data correction. This brings the net-new number of cases today to 166 and the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 30,932.

A 45-year-old inmate of the Headingley Correctional Centre has recently died as the result of an incident involving a number of corrections officers.

Over the past two months, a total of 81 passenger vehicle-related fires have been opened with Manitoba Public Insurance. Nearly three dozen of these fires in December and January were directly related to the use of block heaters.

A 27-year-old Sandy Bay First Nation first nation man is facing a multitude of firearms and drug related charges after Portage la Prairie RCMP conducted a traffic stop, seizing firearms and open liquor in the process.

The Director and CEO of VIDO-InterVac says the biggest challenge in developing its new protein subunit COVID-19 vaccine has been the need to have the manufacturing of the materials for testing carried out at other facilities.

Manitoba reached a testing milestone this past weekend and has completed 500,000 tests for COVID-19 at provincial sites. The province’s testing strategy aims to protect Manitobans by quickly identifying positives and slowing the spread of the virus.

The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 5.2 per cent provincially and 3.9 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30am on February 14, 2021, 80 new cases of the virus have been identified. However, one case has been removed due to a data correction. This brings the net-new number of cases today to 79 and the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 30,766.

Steinbach RCMP are asking the public for any information that may help identify any suspects involved in the recent theft of a log splitter from a property located in the Rural Municipality of Ste. Anne, Manitoba.

The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is five per cent provincially and 3.8 per cent in Winnipeg.As of 9:30am on February 13, 2021, 100 new cases of the virus have been identified. However, one case has been removed due to a data correction. This brings the net-new number of cases today to 99 and the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 30,687.