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WINNIPEG -- Manitoba’s COVID-19 vaccination campaign is officially underway. It comes nine months after the province’s first confirmed case of the virus and on a day when the province recorded 15 additional deaths and 292 cases. While the vaccine's arrival provides a glimmer of hope, health officials caution defensive tactics are still needed to contain the coronavirus. But on Wednesday morning there were cheers and what appeared to be smiles behind masks.  The first doses of the vaccine were injected into the arms of frontline health providers inside the province’s first immuniz...

Canada's vaccine rollout reached four more provinces on Wednesday, with health-care workers being inoculated against COVID-19 as officials warned hospitals in some areas are nearing a breaking point. Nurses were first in line for the Pfizer-BioNTech shot in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador, while Prince Edward Island administered the vaccine first to workers at a long-term care home and Manitoba bestowed the honour on an ICU doctor. "It's an early Christmas present," said Ellen Foley-Vick, a public health nurse who was first to receive the vaccine in St. John's, N.L. Get top storie...

Once or twice every week, Frances Ferguson heads to Health Sciences Centre and carefully pulls on her personal protective equipment, ready for another shift on the front lines as an intensive care unit nurse. In this, she is united with hundreds of health workers across the province who are holding the front line against COVID-19. Once or twice every week, Frances Ferguson heads to Health Sciences Centre and carefully pulls on her personal protective equipment, ready for another shift on the front lines as an intensive care unit nurse. In this, she is united with hundreds of health workers ac...

December 16, 2020 - 4:43 PM The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (All times Eastern): 7:35 p.m. Alberta's top doctor says an Edmonton arena is being set up as an alternate hospital with help from the Canadian Red Cross. Chief medical health officer Dr. Deena Hinshaw says Alberta Health Services and the national charity are putting 100 patient beds in the Butterdome arena at the University of Alberta. She says it will take a few weeks to set up the site, but there is no plan to staff it unless the beds are needed. Another alternate site was previously set up at Ca...

Southern Health nurse among first people to receive COVID-19 vaccine Written by Connor Gerbrandt Wednesday, Dec 16 2020, 12:42 PM Health Sciences Centre Physician Brian Penner was the first person in Manitoba to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Photo credit: John Woods/The Canadian Press Article continues below advertisement ↴ A registered nurse from the Southern Health region was among the first three people in Manitoba to receive a COVID-19 vaccine this morning. “It’s important for me because I’m a front-line worker, I work in the emergency room,” offers Sherry Plett, ...