The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 7.3 per cent provincially and 8.3 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30am on May 1, 2021, 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.