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Peace of mind may also be coming for many Manitoban front-line workers.
Opposition parties tee off on federal government s pandemic response in emergency debate.
Cambodians wait in line before being vaccinated against COVID-19 Thursday in Phnom Penh. According to tracking from the Johns Hopkins Resource Center, three per cent of the eligible population has been fully vaccinated, in a country that has seen just 54 official deaths attributed to the virus. (Cindy Liu/Reuters)
Doug Ford apologizes for pandemic missteps that led to rare political disobedience
Ontario Premier Doug Ford apologized to Ontarians Thursday, days after his government faced intense backlash for introducing a number of additional COVID-19 restrictions recently that were not recommended by health experts and then subsequently walked back.
WINNIPEG Infectious disease experts and advocates for frontline workers are calling for a revised vaccination strategy amid growing concern over the severity of more infectious COVID-19 variants in younger people. Experts who spoke to CTV News said vaccinating based on age was the right strategy to start, but they are now calling on provinces to push younger workers providing essential services closer to the front of the line. Dr. Alexander Wong, an infectious-disease physician in Regina, Sask., said a revised strategy is needed because of an increasing number of severe outcomes in younger Canadians as more transmissible variants circulate.