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The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 12 per cent provincially and 13.5 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30am on June 1, 2021, 232 new cases of the virus have been identified. However, six cases have been removed due to data correction. This brings the net-new number of cases today to 226 and the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 51,316.
All Manitobans could get first shot by mid-May By: Colin Slark
Johanu Botha, co-lead, Vaccine Implementation Task Force said Friday that the new vaccine strategy will not change how many doses the province is receiving or the province’s daily maximum capacity for administering doses. (Winnipeg Free Press)
In Manitoba’s new best-case scenario, everyone in the province who wants to be vaccinated could get their first COVID-19 shot by May 18.
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In Manitoba’s new best-case scenario, everyone in the province who wants to be vaccinated could get their first COVID-19 shot by May 18.
New projections were unveiled by members of the province’s Vaccine Implementation Task Force on Friday, just two days after it was announced Manitoba would be adopting advice from the National Advisory Committee on Immunization, which recommended second doses of vaccine be spaced out by up to four months to allow more people to get th
New hemodialysis unit opens at Health Sciences Centre Winnipeg
Corwyn Friesen, mySteinbach New hemodialysis unit at Health Sciences Centre Winnipeg.
Manitoba is marking the launch of Kidney Health Month with the opening of a new hemodialysis unit at Health Sciences Centre (HSC) Winnipeg, further bolstering renal care for patients who require regular critical life-saving dialysis services.
“The new hemodialysis unit will allow HSC Winnipeg to accommodate a growing number of individuals receiving treatment for the first time, as well as patients from across the province who have been hospitalized, are receiving specialist care or need ongoing dialysis treatments,” said Health and Seniors Care Minister Heather Stefanson. “It further strengthens the size and scope of renal services offered at our provincial hospital, allowing us to meet the current and future needs of dialysis patients in Manitoba.”
Winnipeg Free Press By: Aaron Epp
Sean Miller, executive director of Peer Connections Manitoba, the organization formerly known as the Manitoba Schizophrenia Society.
James was experiencing severe depression, anxiety and loneliness exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic when he visited the Mental Health Crisis Response Centre on Bannatyne Avenue last fall.
James was experiencing severe depression, anxiety and loneliness exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic when he visited the Mental Health Crisis Response Centre on Bannatyne Avenue last fall.
As part of their response, health-care workers referred the 65-year-old retiree to Peer Connections Manitoba for one-on-one peer support.
Through this program, people experiencing mental illness or addiction issues are paired with a peer support worker with lived experience who listens, answers questions regarding accessing mental-health services and helps the person they are working w