WINNIPEG Manitoba s Vaccine Implementation Task Force, along with the First Nations Pandemic Response Co-ordination Team (PRCT), announced its vaccination plan for First Nations in Manitoba Monday afternoon. First Nations have received 5,300 doses of the Moderna vaccine and those vials have been sent to all 63 First Nations in Manitoba. The shots will be used on health-care workers in remote or isolated communities, residents and staff of personal care homes or Elder Care facilities, people aged 60 or older in remote and isolated communities, and people aged 70 or older in non-remote areas. Health officials also said another shipment of Moderna, which will total another 5,300 doses, will arrive in mid-to late-February and those will be used as the second doses.
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Oxford House turns corner on COVID-19 outbreak By: Dylan Robertson
The chief of a northern First Nation that’s starting to bounce back from a COVID-19 outbreak says officials from outside the reserve took a few days to get a contact-tracing process underway as the virus began to spread.
The chief of a northern First Nation that’s starting to bounce back from a COVID-19 outbreak says officials from outside the reserve took a few days to get a contact-tracing process underway as the virus began to spread.
The experience of Bunibonibee Cree Nation, also called Oxford House, illustrates the strain First Nations officials face when outbreaks hit multiple reserves.