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After months of working flat out to care for patients during the pandemic, and sometimes slogging through double shifts, health-care workers were asked to sacrifice yet again by scrapping their days off during the holidays.
After months of working flat out to care for patients during the pandemic, and sometimes slogging through double shifts, health-care workers were asked to sacrifice yet again by scrapping their days off during the holidays.
Thousands of health-care workers employed by Shared Health and the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority were asked to voluntarily give up their booked time off in late December and January in exchange for vacation pay, according to memos dated Dec. 17. The vacation payout offer is a one-time deal to meet staffing demands during the COVID-19 pandemic, a spokesperson for Shared Health confirmed. It s expected to run until the end of January and doesn t apply to doctors.
Advocates say inmates should have speedy access to the COVID-19 vaccine, given how susceptible prisons and jails have been to outbreaks and how prevalent chronic disease is in that population.
Advocates say inmates should have speedy access to the COVID-19 vaccine, given how susceptible prisons and jails have been to outbreaks and how prevalent chronic disease is in that population.
A woman in her 30s in the Southern Health region is one of a dozen more Manitobans who have died from COVID-19, the province said in a news release on Thursday.