By Ryan Young May 1, 2021 12:05 PM Public health officials advise that two new deaths in a person with COVID-19 have been reported today: • a female in her 60s from the Northern health region; and • a male in his 60s from the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region, linked to an outbreak at the Emerson Health Centre. The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 7.3 per cent provincially and 8.3 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30 a.m. today, 273 new cases of the virus have been identified. However, seven cases have been removed due to data correction. This brings the net-new number of cases today to 266 and the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 38,995.