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For Alaska state employees, temporary pandemic telework may become permanent Published December 17, 2020 Share on Facebook Print article More than 6,000 of Alaska’s 14,000 state employees are working from home in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus. For some, the alternate working conditions will soon become permanent. For many more, a long-term change is in the works. According to public records, the state of Alaska is spending at least $58.2 million in federal COVID-19 aid on a permanent telework program for state employees. The effort, called the Pandemic Preparedness Program, will not be fully implemented until 2022, but the state has already bought thousands of laptops and other equipment to support telework, and the budget proposed by Gov. Mike Dunleavy last week indicates that some state agencies are switching to permanent telework or a hybrid system that limits office time. ....
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WINNIPEG Manitoba’s COVID-19 vaccination campaign is officially underway. It comes nine months after the province’s first confirmed case of the virus and on a day when the province recorded 15 additional deaths and 292 cases. While the vaccine s arrival provides a glimmer of hope, health officials caution defensive tactics are still needed to contain the coronavirus. But on Wednesday morning there were cheers and what appeared to be smiles behind masks. The first doses of the vaccine were injected into the arms of frontline health providers inside the province’s first immunization clinic, at the University of Manitoba’s Rady Faculty of Health Sciences Bannatyne campus. ....
Canada s vaccine rollout reached four more provinces on Wednesday, with health-care workers being inoculated against COVID-19 as officials warned hospitals in some areas are nearing a breaking point. Nurses were first in line for the Pfizer-BioNTech shot in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador, while Prince Edward Island administered the vaccine first to workers at a long-term care home and Manitoba bestowed the honour on an ICU doctor. It s an early Christmas present, said Ellen Foley-Vick, a public health nurse who was first to receive the vaccine in St. John s, N.L. Get top stories in your inbox. Our award-winning journalists bring you the news that impacts you, Canada, and the world. Don t miss out. ....
Once or twice every week, Frances Ferguson heads to Health Sciences Centre and carefully pulls on her personal protective equipment, ready for another shift on the front lines as an intensive care unit nurse. In this, she is united with hundreds of health workers across the province who are holding the front line against COVID-19. Once or twice every week, Frances Ferguson heads to Health Sciences Centre and carefully pulls on her personal protective equipment, ready for another shift on the front lines as an intensive care unit nurse. In this, she is united with hundreds of health workers across the province who are holding the front line against COVID-19. ....