First dose of COVID-19 vaccines to residents living in licensed personal care homes completed
Corwyn Friesen, mySteinbach Health and Seniors Care Minister Heather Stefanson at recent COVID-19 briefing.
All residents of licensed personal care homes who chose to be vaccinated for COVID-19 will receive their first dose by the end of the day on Saturday, January 30, 2020.
“We had committed to ensuring all first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine were available in all licensed personal care homes within 28 days. Today, I’m pleased to announce this vital step in our immunization plan will be completed in three weeks,” said Health and Seniors Care Minister Heather Stefanson. “I want to thank all the health-care providers on the front lines and the members of the Vaccine Implementation Task Force for making this possible, as well as for their hard work, detailed plans and commitment to protecting some of the most vulnerable Manitobans.”
Author of the article: Scott Billeck
Publishing date: Jan 29, 2021 • January 30, 2021 • 3 minute read • Dr. Joss Reimer, left, medical officer of health, Manitoba Health and Seniors Care, and medical lead, Vaccine Implementation Task Force injects Mabel Aldwinckle with her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at Meadowood Manor in Winnipeg, Friday, January 29, 2021. Dr Reimer was finishing up the first round of inoculations at Manitoba’s personal care homes today. Photo by John Woods /The Canadian Press/Pool
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A campaign to give first doses of life-saving COVID-19 vaccine to personal care home residents will be completed by the end of the day on Saturday, the province said Friday.
WINNIPEG COVID-19 vaccinations for all residents of personal care homes who choose to receive one will be completed on Saturday, according to Health and Seniors Care Minister Heather Stefanson. In a statement, Stefanson said this phase of the province’s immunization plan will be completed in three weeks, ahead of the previously committed 28-day timeline. “I want to thank all the health-care providers on the front lines and the members of the Vaccine Implementation Task Force for making this possible, as well as for their hard work, detailed plans and commitment to protecting some of the most vulnerable Manitobans,” she said.
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Public health officials announced eight more deaths and 133 new cases of COVID-19 in Manitoban on Thursday, snapping a two-day streak of cases numbers that fell below 100.
Nearly half of the new cases 61 came in the hard-hit Northern Health region. Winnipeg, meanwhile, had just 29 new infections, the lowest number in the capital since Oct. 17.
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Praire Mountain Health recorded a further 19 new cases while 17 additional cases were found in Interlake-Eastern and seven new cases were found in Southern Health.
2020 novel coronavirus bulletin – 328
Corwyn Friesen, mySteinbach
Posted on 01/28/2021 at 2:12 pm
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 8.7 per cent provincially and 5.4 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30am on January 28, 2021, 133 new cases of the virus have been identified. However, one case has been removed due to a data correction. This brings the net-new number of cases today to 132 and the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 29,128.
Public health officials advise eight additional deaths in people with COVID-19 have been reported today including:
a female in her 80s from the Interlake–Eastern health region, linked to the outbreak at the Beausejour Hospital;