Second-dose eligibility for the COVID-19 vaccine is opening further.

Manitobans who received their first COVID-19 vaccine on or before April 25 can now book their second dose. Indigenous people and those with specified health conditions continue to be eligible for their second dose. Since December, 1,041,040 doses of vaccine have been delivered to Manitoba, with 911,382 of those vaccines administered.

As of Friday morning, there are 329 new COVID-19 cases in Manitoba.

These cases include:

  • 203 cases in the Winnipeg health region\
  • 38 cases in the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region
  • 30 cases in the Interlake-Eastern health region
  • 30 cases in the Northern health region
  • 28 cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region

Manitoba's five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 11.4 per cent and Winnipeg's is 13.

Four more Manitobans have died:

  • a male in his 40 from the Interlake-Eastern health region, linked to the B.1.1.7 variant of concern
  • a female in her 70s from the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region, linked to the B.1.1.7 variant of concern
  • a female in her 70s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to the B.1.1.7 variant of concern
  • a female in her 80s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to the B.1.1.7 variant of concern

A total of 1,071 people with COVID have died.

In hospital there are:

  • 207 people in hospital with active COVID-19 as well as 86 people in hospital with COVID-19 who are no longer infectious, amounting to a total of 293 hospitalizations
  • a total of 106 Manitoba patients receiving intensive care for COVID-19 including 42 people in intensive care units in Manitoba with active COVID-19 as well as 23 people with COVID-19 who are no longer infectious but continue to require critical care, amounting to a total of 65 ICU patients in Manitoba
  • 41 Manitoba patients in intensive care units outside the province, with 37 in Ontario, two in Saskatchewan and two in Alberta

Eleven Manitobans who were being treated out of province have returned.