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Dr. Marcia Anderson, public health lead, First Nation Pandemic Response Co-ordination Team, gives the vaccine to Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Arlen Dumas in March. Anderson is encouraging all Indigenous people to get the shot. (Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press)
First Nations officials are urging Indigenous Manitobans to get vaccinated as more infectious COVID-19 variants surge on and off reserves.
First Nations officials are urging Indigenous Manitobans to get vaccinated as more infectious COVID-19 variants surge on and off reserves. The average age of deaths is going down for First Nations people, Dr. Marcia Anderson said Friday, the same week two First Nations people in their 20s died from COVID-19.
On Saturday, 710 cases of the more contagious coronavirus variants were reported in Manitoba on the province s variant dashboard, up from 704 on Friday. Of those, 287 are considered active.
Most of those cases are the B117 variant first detected in the U.K., though the province has also reported a total of 20 cases of the B1351 strain first seen in South Africa and one case of the P1 variant, which has become associated with Brazil.
There has been one other on-reserve case of a variant of concern in Manitoba, which was reported on March 19 by Dr. Marcia Anderson of the First Nations Pandemic Response Co-ordination Team.
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Long Plain told to stop giving away doses as band struggles to fill appointments on reserve By: Dylan Robertson | Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Tuesday, Apr. 6, 2021
The team overseeing COVID-19 vaccinations for Manitoba First Nations told one reserve to stop giving shots to non-Indigenous people with no ties to the community, as band councils struggle to get appointments filled.
The team overseeing COVID-19 vaccinations for Manitoba First Nations told one reserve to stop giving shots to non-Indigenous people with no ties to the community, as band councils struggle to get appointments filled. We were reaching for 80 per cent of the population to get vaccinated, and we re going to be nowhere near that number, Long Plain Chief Dennis Meeches told the
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