The race is on for the province to nearly double its capacity and deliver 20,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses a day next month.
The race is on for the province to nearly double its capacity and deliver 20,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses a day next month.
In just four weeks, vaccine deliveries are expected to ramp up significantly, but on Friday, the province only had the capacity to dole out about 12,500 lifesaving shots.
The Manitoba government has set a goal to give out 20,000 jabs daily in order to keep up with the minimum 1.5 million doses it will receive from the federal government from April to June.
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Two additional deaths in people with COVID-19 and 50 new cases were reported in Manitoba on Sunday, as the province edged closer to another grim milestone.
A man in his 80s and a woman in her 90s were reported to have passed away, both from Winnipeg but neither linked to outbreaks. That brings the total number of deaths of Manitobans from COVID-19 to 895.
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The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate remained 3.7% provincially and dropped to 2.7% in Winnipeg, after sitting at 3.2% on Saturday. Fifty new cases of the virus have been identified, bringing the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 31,859.
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