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The Canadian Press
More First Nations priority groups have been identified to receive doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in Manitoba as Indigenous people in the province
continue to face disproportionate rates of infection, hospitalization and death.
Traditional healers and knowledge keepers, health care workers in non-remote First Nations communities in direct contact with patients, and First Nations isolation workers will have access to the Moderna vaccine starting next week in pop-up inoculation
Posted: Jan 25, 2021 11:23 AM CT | Last Updated: January 25
The northern part of Manitoba is still seeing the majority of new COVID-19 cases but a lot of work is happening at the moment from all levels of governments to address that, Dr. Brent Roussin says. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
Posted: Jan 20, 2021 11:31 AM CT | Last Updated: January 20
A health-care worker holds a COVID-19 swab in this file photo. Manitoba has completed more than 456,000 tests for the illness since early February 2020.(Eduardo Verdugo/The Associated Press file photo)
Posted: Jan 18, 2021 11:45 AM CT | Last Updated: January 18
Chief Provincial Public Health Officer Dr. Brent Roussin said information on the loosening of the code red restrictions in Manitoba will come this week.(Evan Mitsui/CBC)
Manitoba announced 118 cases of COVID-19 and four more deaths on Monday, the 11th consecutive day the province has recorded single-digit deaths.
The latest deaths are connected to current outbreaks, including a man in his 80s at the Rod McGillivary Memorial Care Home in Opaskwayak Cree Nation in the Northern Health Region.
The other three deaths are in the Winnipeg health region a man in his 60s linked to the outbreak at the Southeast Personal Care Home, a woman in her 70s linked to the outbreak at Concordia Place and a woman in her 80s linked to the outbreak at Health Sciences Centre WRS3.