Page 11 - Vaccine Implementation Task News Today

Manitobans born on or before Dec. 31, 1926 are now eligible for the COVID-19 vaccination.

The province’s COVID-19 vaccination task force will soon be able to begin the process of vacci...

Provincial health officials announced that Manitobans will have more access to the COVID-19 vaccine in the coming weeks as two new super sites are set to open.

Winnipeg Free Press By: Tom Brodbeck | Posted: 7:00 PM CST Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021 Opinion Public health officials could have some explaining to do if inmates in provincial jails and residents of homeless shelters receive COVID-19 vaccines before elderly Manitobans. Winnipeg Free Press Public health officials could have some explaining to do if inmates in provincial jails and residents of homeless shelters receive COVID-19 vaccines before eld...

Article content One of the province’s great struggles in their pandemic response has been an inability to take in a more global view of the health crisis. They are staring so closely at the numbers that they cannot see the forest surrounding them. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or ALDRICH: Inmates receiving vaccines over elderly is a plan that belongs behind bars Back to video Information from a draft of an internal document on planning for the...

In order to build capacity and prepare for an unprecedented immunization campaign, the province has once again expanded the professions that will be able to protect Manitobans by administering the COVID-19 vaccine, Health and Seniors Care Minister Heather Stefanson announced. 

Vaccination plans for Manitoba First Nations have been released as communities continue to grapple with COVID-19 infections.

  WINNIPEG -- Approximately 10 inmates of the Stony Mountain Institution in Manitoba have been given the COVID-19 vaccine, though the frontline correctional officers who work with them have been left waiting. Stony Mountain Institution, which is Manitobas only federal prison, was included in Canadas first phase of the vaccine rollout in federal institutions. Starting in early January, the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) delivered doses of the Moderna Vaccine to 600 inmates across the c...

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 ...

Physicians hope Manitoba issues COVID-19 vaccination cards to prevent a rush of people who demand re...