Posted: Dec 15, 2020 11:18 AM CT | Last Updated: December 15, 2020
Canada Border Services Agency officers watch as the first shipments of the COVID-19 vaccine are unloaded in Winnipeg on the morning of Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020.(Submitted by the Canada Border Services Agency)
With the first shipments of the COVID-19 vaccine now in Manitoba, Premier Brian Pallister announced Tuesday that Winnipeg s convention centre will be used in coming weeks as a supersite for administering the vaccine.
The initial doses landed in the province early Tuesday morning, the Canada Border Services Agency said.
Last weekend provincial officials said Manitoba will receive enough doses to vaccinate around 900 people to start, with the first doses going to health-care workers.
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