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Manitoba plans to immunize nearly 10,000 personal care home residents over a four-week span beginning Jan. 11, the province announced on Wednesday.
The 28-day campaign, outlined by Premier Brian Pallister during a news conference, will immunize an estimated 9,834 eligible residents at 135 homes, with the first 1,157 people getting their first doses starting next week at seven locations across the province.
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Pallister said by early March, every eligible resident will have received both doses of the vaccine. Immunizations are expected to use the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines.
WINNIPEG Nearly 200 more of Manitoba’s health-care workers tested positive for COVID-19 in the span of a week. According to the province’s latest COVID-19 and influenza surveillance report, which reports the numbers from Dec. 6 to Dec. 12, a total of 1,348 health-care workers have contracted the disease since the start of the pandemic. This is 199 more workers than the province reported the week before. The province noted that 1,141 of these workers have recovered from the disease. Of these 1,348 workers, 769 are allied health and support staff, 394 are nurses/licensed practical nurses, 52 are physicians/physicians in training, and 27 are first responders. The occupations of 106 of these workers are not identified.