There was one case removed from the daily tally because it was a duplicate, the province said.

The current test positivity rate — a rolling five-day average of how many COVID-19 tests come back positive — is 0.46 per cent.

There are nine people in hospital with the illness caused by the new coronavirus, with four in intensive care.

Two positive cases in Steinbach, Man., reported on the weekend are connected to a single household, Health Minister Cameron Friesen said at a news conference Tuesday.

A number of businesses in Steinbach announced they were closing temporarily out of caution. Although Friesen acknowledged the jump in confirmed cases over the weekend has caused concern, there was no recommendation from his ministry for businesses to close, he said.

“People are doing the right things, public health did their job, contact tracing was successful, the people involved have gone home to self-isolate and they’re being monitored, and I think that should give people a lot more comfort in terms of their decision today of whether they want to move around or not,” he said.