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).
Oxford House turns corner on COVID-19 outbreak By: Dylan Robertson
The chief of a northern First Nation that’s starting to bounce back from a COVID-19 outbreak says officials from outside the reserve took a few days to get a contact-tracing process underway as the virus began to spread.
The chief of a northern First Nation that’s starting to bounce back from a COVID-19 outbreak says officials from outside the reserve took a few days to get a contact-tracing process underway as the virus began to spread.
The experience of Bunibonibee Cree Nation, also called Oxford House, illustrates the strain First Nations officials face when outbreaks hit multiple reserves.
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.
Posted: Dec 15, 2020 5:00 AM CT | Last Updated: December 15, 2020
The chief of Peguis First Nation says his community went into lockdown five weeks before the rest of Manitoba, allowing them to get COVID-19 infection numbers under control ahead of the holidays.(Peguis First Nation/Facebook)
Peguis First Nation will allow some visits during relaxed lockdown days over the winter holidays a decision the chief says is possible because COVID-19 restrictions have worked.
Extended family and students, including those living off-reserve, will be allowed to visit one household from Dec. 23 to 28, and over New Year s Eve from Dec. 31-Jan 1, a post on the community s website states.