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The province has sidelined Métis in matters related to COVID-19 vaccination, according to the Manitoba Metis Federation.
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The province has sidelined Métis in matters related to COVID-19 vaccination, according to the Manitoba Metis Federation.
In an interview in which he called Premier Brian Pallister cruel, the federation’s president David Chartrand said the premier is playing politics with the lives of his people.
In an interview in which he called Premier Brian Pallister cruel, the Manitoba Metis Federation’s president David Chartrand said the premier is playing politics with the lives of his people. Chartrand says there is no plan in place to vaccinate vulnerable Métis. (Winnipeg Free Press)
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Peguis, Fisher River, Norway House and Cross Lake First Nations will receive Moderna vaccines this week.
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Peguis, Fisher River, Norway House and Cross Lake First Nations will receive Moderna vaccines this week.
The allotments for Peguis and Fisher River were being driven out and the other two were shipped by plane the shipments were scheduled to depart yesterday.
First Nations in Manitoba will receive 5,300 doses of the Moderna vaccine for immediate vaccination, according to a statement from Southern Chiefs’ Organization Grand Chief Jerry Daniels late Wednesday evening. Also as of yesterday, the Province of Manitoba committed an additional allocation of 5,300 doses that will roll out the week of Feb. 23.
Manitoba paramedics, home-care workers eligible for COVID-19 vaccine in January
More Manitobans will be eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine starting in the new year, the provincial government announced Wednesday.
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Roughly 15,000 care home residents expected to be eligible to get the vaccine next month, province says
Posted: Dec 23, 2020 12:21 PM CT | Last Updated: December 23, 2020
Once more vaccine arrives in January, an estimated 15,000 Manitoba care home residents will become eligible for immunization, the province says.(Evan Mitsui/CBC)
Shamattawa chief frustrated as First Nation rapid response team leaves community amid COVID-19 outbreak
As a First Nations rapid response team pulls out of Shamattawa First Nation in northeastern Manitoba, the community’s chief says now isn’t the time to withdraw testing capacity from a reserve battling a growing COVID-19 outbreak.
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Posted: Dec 19, 2020 9:17 PM CT | Last Updated: December 20, 2020
Shamattawa First Nation Chief Eric Redhead said widespread testing is a big part of the community s pandemic planning, and with the rapid response team gone, their capacity has dwindled.(Tyson Koschik/CBC)
As a First Nations rapid response team pulls out of Shamattawa First Nation in northeastern Manitoba, the community s chief says now isn t the time to withdraw testing capacity from a reserve battling a growing COVID-19 outbreak.
WINNIPEG Since the beginning of the pandemic, 75 of Manitoba’s First Nations citizens have died from COVID-19. According to the Manitoba First Nations COVID-19 Pandemic Response Coordination Team (PRCT), 16 of these deaths have taken place in the last week. First Nations people account for more than 22 per cent of the province’s total cases, with 5,049 cases since the beginning of the pandemic. In the past week alone, there’s been more than 800 new cases among the First Nations population – both on reserve and off reserve. A total of 2,801 First Nations people have recovered from COVID-19. On Friday, the PRCT reported that there are currently 104 First Nations people in the hospital with COVID-19, which account for 34 per cent of the province’s hospitalizations. It added that 20 of these people are in the ICU, accounting for 47 per cent of all COVID-19 admissions at this time.