2 COVID-related deaths in Manitoba and hospitalizations drop by 5

There are two more COVID-19-related deaths and five fewerpeople in hospital in Manitoba on Tuesday, the province's online dashboard says.

Both people who died were from the Winnipeg health region. That bringstotal COVID-19 deaths in Manitoba to 1,602.

There are now 697 people in hospital with the virus.

That includes40 people withCOVID-19 in intensive care units, down seven from Monday.

As of Tuesday, there are 101 patients in Manitoba intensive care units, including both COVID and non-COVID patients, a drop of eight.

The province reported413 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, although public health officials have repeatedly said those numbers are a significant undercount of the total number of active cases. Manitoba isrestrictingaccess toPCR tests at provincial sitesand doesn't track most rapid test results.

The Winnipeg health region has 168 new cases. There are 100 in the Northern Health Region, 69 in the Prairie Mountain Health region and 38 each in the Interlake-Eastern and Southern Health regions.

On Monday,1,545 PCR tests were done in Manitoba.

The province'sfive-day test positivity rate held steady at 27.3 per cent.

As of Tuesday, 80.4 per cent of Manitobans age five and up have at least two doses of the vaccine and 41.8 per cent have three.