WINNIPEG – The province is reporting two deaths today from COVID-19, both of them in Winnipeg.

There are 139 new cases of the virus, including 52 in Winnipeg and 75 in the north.

1,153 cases are active, 29,114 people have recovered, for a total of 31,145 cases so far.

224 Manitobans are in hospital right now, 27 of them in the ICU.

The five day test positivity rate in the province is six per cent. Winnipeg’s rate is 4.4. 1,827 tests were done in the last 24 hours for a total of 506,511 since the pandemic began.

The death toll now sits at 878.