Winnipeg Free Press By: Dylan Robertson
Indigenous people are mobilizing to contain the spread of COVID-19 among the most vulnerable Manitobans.
Indigenous people are mobilizing to contain the spread of COVID-19 among the most vulnerable Manitobans.
Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre announced Thursday it will start to offer both rapid screening and conventional COVID-19 tests at its 445 King St. location starting Tuesday.
The staff are all Indigenous people, noted Ma Mawi head Diane Redsky. They come from our community and they’re here… to reduce the anxiety, while we are protecting our future.
Rapid-screening devices are less accurate at detecting COVID-19 than laboratory testing, but they’re good at detecting those who have high viral loads without even knowing they re infected and thus the most likely to spread the virus.
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People are using some original methods to get people to take the vaccine, says Marc Miller, minister overseeing Indigenous Services Canada. (Adrian Wyld / The Canadian Press files)
OTTAWA Federal officials say they ll help to avoid letting unused Moderna doses expire on Manitoba reserves, and ensure Métis people are included in the campaign to inoculate the most remote corners of the province from COVID-19.
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OTTAWA Federal officials say they ll help to avoid letting unused Moderna doses expire on Manitoba reserves, and ensure Métis people are included in the campaign to inoculate the most remote corners of the province from COVID-19.
It was before the loss began.
Before patient zero turned up in Manitoba, before the first of us died, before the virus ripped through our community, before the homes of our elderly were stricken with sickness, before the hospitals were overrun, before the doctors and nurses revolted, before the economy shut down, before the daily death toll became nightly news.
Before all that, there was a hockey game.
A Monday in Winnipeg. The temperature drops below zero but the sun is out in full force. A normal weekday afternoon fades into a normal weekday evening. As rush-hour traffic streams through downtown, 15,325 people file into Bell MTS Place for a 6 p.m. puck drop.
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A shot is administered at the COVID-19 vaccination super site at RBC Convention Centre in downtown Winnipeg on Monday. The province s vaccine task force projects everyone who wants a vaccine can get their initial shot by the end of June.
The province s vaccine task force is projecting all Manitobans can be vaccinated against COVID-19 by the end of June.
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The province s vaccine task force is projecting all Manitobans can be vaccinated against COVID-19 by the end of June.
Sometime between mid-May and the end of June, everyone who wants a first dose of vaccine in the province should be able to get one, based on supply and the task force s current plans, officials announced Friday.