Province partnering with physician, pharmacist organizations to prepare for COVID-19 vaccine delivery
Corwyn Friesen, mySteinbach
Posted on 02/05/2021 at 9:00 am
The Manitoba government is partnering with organizations representing Manitoba physicians and pharmacists and their members to prepare for the province’s vaccine rollout of new vaccines once they are approved for use in Canada.
“We are confident in the work of our supersites and focused immunization teams with the current approved vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna. But we now anticipate that new vaccines that do not need to be frozen could become available in Manitoba in the days and weeks ahead, once they are approved by Health Canada and distribution begins,” said Health and Seniors Care Minister Heather Stefanson. “To prepare, we are asking physicians and pharmacists who are interested in providing this kind of care for their patients to take part in the registration process so we can identify and crea
WINNIPEG The province of Manitoba is planning to ramp up its vaccine capacity to deliver 20,000 doses per day in the second quarter of 2021. During a technical briefing on Wednesday, Johanu Botha, the co-lead of Manitoba’s Vaccine Implementation Task Force, said the province is preparing to bolster its vaccine rollout. Botha said the province is expecting to have a significant increase in vaccine supply. He said the province is getting ready to be able to deliver 1.5 million doses in the second quarter. Botha said this is a shift from the 100,000 doses expected to be delivered in the first quarter. To achieve the 1.5 million doses, capacity will be increased to administer doses to 20,000 people each day.
Posted: Feb 01, 2021 12:26 PM CT | Last Updated: February 1
A resident becomes the first in Peguis First Nation to get the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.(Peguis First Nation/Facebook)
When Manitoba begins its age-based COVID-19 vaccine rollout starting with older adults next month, First Nations people who are 20 years younger will also be eligible at the same time.
For example, when members of the general public who are over 80 begin begin to get vaccinated, First Nations people over 60 will also be eligible, in light of the disproportionate impact the virus has had on Indigenous people, Dr. Marcia Anderson said at a news conference on Monday.
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Paul Beauregard will remain with the civil service as a technical officer at the deputy minister level.
A powerful provincial civil servant has been handed a different role as he transitions out of government.
A powerful provincial civil servant has been handed a different role as he transitions out of government.
Paul Beauregard s appointment as treasury board secretary was revoked last week, according to a Jan. 26 cabinet order. He will remain with the civil service as a technical officer at the deputy minister level.