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Johanu Botha, co-lead of the vaccine task force. The province is reviewing the approval and considering vaccinating everyone in Manitoba, 12 years of age and up with appointment bookings starting May 21. (File)
On the heels of Health Canada’s approval for the use of the Pfizer vaccine for children aged 12 to 15, the province is reviewing the approval and considering vaccinating everyone in Manitoba, 12 years of age and up with appointment bookings starting May 21.
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On the heels of Health Canada’s approval for the use of the Pfizer vaccine for children aged 12 to 15, the province is reviewing the approval and considering vaccinating everyone in Manitoba, 12 years of age and up with appointment bookings starting May 21.
Manitobans 45 years of age and older are now eligible to book vaccination appointments at supersites and pop-up clinics, the province announced Wednesday.
The provincial government says it expects that COVID-19 vaccine eligibility across the province will be expanded to everyone 18 and over by May 21 and that some people who have received first doses. . .
Eligibility to be immunized at a super site or pop-up clinic has been expanded to include individuals aged 45 or older and Indigenous people aged 18 and older. Manitoba expects that eligibility will expand to include all people aged 18 or older by May 21.
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COVID enforcement officers handed out 58 tickets last week, their highest total in months.
This includes 42 $1,296 tickets of which, 33 were for gatherings in private residences, which have been banned in the last set of health orders. The other nine were for a failure to self-isolate.
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The province issued 20 tickets for a gathering at The Forks on April 25 and have followed up with two tickets at a rally in Winkler this past Saturday and four tickets at a rally at the Winnipeg Law Courts on Monday. The rally in front of the courts was related to an eight-day hearing as seven churches challenge the health orders which have had churches shut down or under restricted capacities for much of the last 14 months. These fines will be included in next week’s report.