Brandon Sun By: Michele LeTourneau, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Posted:
Peguis, Fisher River, Norway House and Cross Lake First Nations will receive Moderna vaccines this week.
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Peguis, Fisher River, Norway House and Cross Lake First Nations will receive Moderna vaccines this week.
The allotments for Peguis and Fisher River were being driven out and the other two were shipped by plane the shipments were scheduled to depart yesterday.
First Nations in Manitoba will receive 5,300 doses of the Moderna vaccine for immediate vaccination, according to a statement from Southern Chiefs’ Organization Grand Chief Jerry Daniels late Wednesday evening. Also as of yesterday, the Province of Manitoba committed an additional allocation of 5,300 doses that will roll out the week of Feb. 23.
Brandon Sun By: Michele LeTourneau, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Posted: Save to Read Later
Dr. Supriya Sharma, chief medical advisor at Health Canada, speaks while Dr. Marc Berthiaume, director of the bureau of medical sciences at Health Canada, listens, during a press conference to announce that Health Canada has authorized the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in Ottawa on Dec. 23. (The Canadian Press)
The Moderna vaccine which requires less stringent measures to keep it viable as compared to the Pfizer vaccine is arriving in Manitoba and 5,300 of 7,300 doses are destined for First Nations people.
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The Moderna vaccine which requires less stringent measures to keep it viable as compared to the Pfizer vaccine is arriving in Manitoba and 5,300 of 7,300 doses are destined for First Nations people.
Manitoba COVID-19 vaccine bulletin – 6
Corwyn Friesen, mySteinbach
Posted on 12/24/2020 at 9:47 am
As more COVID-19 vaccine is delivered to Manitoba in in the coming weeks, the province will expand eligibility criteria to help protect more health-care workers and those most at risk of serious illness from the virus. These adjustments will include progressively immunizing a broader range of health-care workers, residents of personal care homes and elderly Manitobans.
The eligibility criteria for next week’s immunization clinic will remain broadly unchanged, based on vaccine supply, to include health-care workers who have direct patient contact in:
critical care;
a COVID-19 immunization clinic or testing site (expanded to include testing sites).
Winnipeg Free Press By: Katie May | Posted: 5:29 PM CST Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020
Starting in the new year, vaccines will be rolled out in personal care homes and to more health care workers on the front lines of the pandemic, Manitoba public health officials announced Wednesday.
Starting in the new year, vaccines will be rolled out in personal care homes and to more health care workers on the front lines of the pandemic, Manitoba public health officials announced Wednesday.
Health-care professionals who work in jails, homeless shelters and COVID-19 labs will soon be able to get in line for immunization.
The province is expanding eligibility criteria for its COVID-19 immunization program and is setting up vaccination clinics in Winnipeg, Brandon and Thompson as thousands more doses of the Pfizer vaccine become available.
Author of the article: Josh Aldrich
Publishing date: Dec 23, 2020 • December 23, 2020 • 3 minute read • LoriAnn Laramee, public health nurse, prepares dilutant for the COVID-19 vaccine in the COVID-19 vaccination clinic at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg, Wednesday, December 16, 2020. Qualified Manitobans received their first inoculation in the COVID-19 vaccination. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods Photo by John Woods /Pool/Winnipeg Sun
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The province is preparing to expand the eligibility criteria for vaccines as shipments and production ramps up, including the ability to deliver 10,000 doses of vaccine per week to Manitobans in January.
More health care workers and those at risk of serious illness, including residents in personal care homes and other seniors, will be able to get the shot in the coming weeks.