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The race is on for the province to nearly double its capacity and deliver 20,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses a day next month. The race is on for the province to nearly double its capacity and deliver 20,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses a day next month. In just four weeks, vaccine deliveries are expected to ramp up significantly, but on Friday, the province only had the capacity to dole out about 12,500 lifesaving shots. The Manitoba government has set a goal to give out 20,000 jabs daily in order to keep up with the minimum 1.5 million doses it will receive from the federal government from April...

  WINNIPEG -- The province of Manitoba is planning to ramp up its vaccine capacity to deliver 20,000 doses per day in the second quarter of 2021. During a technical briefing on Wednesday, Johanu Botha, the co-lead of Manitoba’s Vaccine Implementation Task Force, said the province is preparing to bolster its vaccine rollout. Botha said the province is expecting to have a "significant increase" in vaccine supply. He said the province is getting ready to be able to deliver 1.5 million doses in the second quarter. Botha said this is a shift from the 100,000 doses expected to be delivered ...

Posted: Feb 03, 2021 10:17 AM CT | Last Updated: February 3 Manitoba hopes to provide 20,000 COVID-19 vaccine shots per day from April to June.(Tyson Koschik/CBC) comments In total, that would amount to 1.5 million doses in those three months. But that hinges on vaccine supply, Johanu Botha, co-lead of the province's vaccine implementation task force, said Wednesday. "That does remain the limiting factor," he said. "But our goal is to be prepared for the full amount of vaccine coming our way, regardless of how supply chain volatility affects how and when it arrives." Vaccine supersites wi...

Northern Manitoba and the province as a whole recorded some of the lowest numbers of new COVID-19 cases in recent days Jan. 26 but the threat of a more deadlier variant now present in Canada has prompted the provincial government to bring back self-isolation requirements for people arriving in Manitoba from other provinces. Ninety-four new cases of the virus were announced by the provincial government on Tuesday, including 36 in the Northern Regional Health Authority. The largest increases in the north were in the Bunibonibee/Oxford House/Manto Sipi/God’s River/God’s Lake and Island Lak...

Photograph By Thompson Citizen files Northern Manitoba posted a triple-digit increase in new COVID-19 cases Jan. 21, accounting for more than half of all the new cases in the province and more than Winnipeg and the other three health regions combined. 105 of 198 new cases of the virus announced by the province on Thursday were in the north, with the Island Lake health district seeing 43 new cases, the Lynn Lake/Marcel Colomb/South Indian Lake/Leaf Rapids health district 16 and the Bunibonibee/Oxford House/Manto Sipi/God’s River/God’s Lake health district 10 new infect...