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.
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
Getting COVID-19 Vaccines Closer to Home
Kelvin Goertzen, Author
Member of the Legislative Assembly, Steinbach
Over the past week there has been a great deal of concern about the availability of COVID-19 vaccines in Canada. The federal government, which is responsible for the supply of these vaccines, has seen their shipments of the two approved vaccines in Canada reduced significantly and there have been other concerning comments from countries that manufacture the vaccines that have caused questions about the reliability of supply. As a result, Canada’s position in the world when it comes to vaccine distribution is now worse than 30 other nations and falling further behind.
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.