WINNIPEG – 12 more Manitobans are dead today from COVID-19. Nine of the deaths are in Winnipeg.

The province is also reporting 244 new cases of the virus, including 114 in Winnipeg.

The number of active cases is 4,489, while 18,518 people have recovered. The total number of cases so far is 23,624.

254 people are in hospital, 35 of them in intensive care.

The Manitoba test positivity rate is 10.6 per cent. Winnipeg’s rate is the same. 2,163 people have been tested in the past 24 hours for a total of 411,618 since the pandemic began.

The death toll stands at 617.