Three more COVID-19 patients have been transferred from intensive care units in Manitoba to hospitals in Ontario. They bring the number of Manitoba intensive care patients moved to Ontario to 10. The rest of the new cases are split between the Southern Health region (which reported 76 new ones), the Prairie Mountain Health region (31), the Northern Health Region (30) and the Interlake-Eastern health region (25). As of numbers provided on Saturday, virus variants now make up 2,965 — or nearly 60 per cent — of Manitoba's 5,072 active COVID-19 cases. Manitoba has announced a total of 48,436 COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began last year, including 42,335 people deemed recovered.

Source: CBC News May 23, 2021 17:31 UTC