Article continues below advertisement ↴ The province says there are 164 new cases of COVID-19 in Manitoba. The latest person with COVID-19 to die is a man in his 50s from the Northern Health region. New cases Wednesday include: • 30 cases in the Northern health region • 19 cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region • 24 cases in the Southern Health-Santé Sud health region • 76 cases in the Winnipeg health region The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 6.3 per cent provincially and 6.6 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30 a.m. today, 164 new cases of the virus have been identified. However, two cases have been removed due to data correction. This brings the net-new number of cases today to 162 and the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 36,632.