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  WINNIPEG -- Manitobans will be able to weigh in on the vaccine rollout in the province next week. Two telephone town halls have been scheduled for April 13 and April 15. The town halls will include Health and Seniors Care Minister Health Stefanson, Dr. Brent Roussin, the chief provincial public health officer, Dr. Joss Reimer, the medical lead of the Vaccine Implementation Task Force, and Johanu Botha, the co-lead of the Vaccine Implementation Task Force. The first town hall will be for people in rural and northern Manitoba and the second will be for those living in Winnipeg. Both ev...

Manitoba COVID-19 vaccine bulletin – 61 Corwyn Friesen, mySteinbach Posted on 04/07/2021 at 1:00 pm Two telephone towns halls focused on the province’s COVID-19 immunization campaign will be held next week. Participants will include Health and Seniors Care Minister Heather Stefanson, Dr. Brent Roussin, chief provincial public health officer, and Dr. Joss Reimer and Johanu Botha from the province’s Vaccine Implementation Task Force. A session for rural and northern Manitoba will take place on Tuesday, April 13 at 6:30 p.m. A session for people living in Winnipeg will be held on Thursday,...

Winnipeg Free Press Clinic staff alleges poor planning; province acknowledges staffing issues Winnipeg Free Press In separate interviews with the Free Press Monday, three clinic navigators, who asked not to be identified for fear of losing their jobs, expressed significant concerns about operations at the RBC Convention Centre supersite in Winnipeg. MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILES Johanu Botha, co-lead, Vaccine Implementation Task Force. Last week, Johanu Botha, operations and planning lead for Manitoba's vaccine task force, blamed the long waits at the supersite on computer glitch...

"The situation is critical and we have to act quickly," he said, adding he expects hospitalizations to spike in those cities in the coming days. The announcement comes a day after Legault had warned that tighter pandemic rules could be imposed in five regions where he said people were flouting public health measures. Four of those regions -- Quebec City, the Outaouais area across the river from Ottawa, Chaudiere-Appalaches and Bas-St-Laurent -- will also be moving to the more stringent "red" pandemic alert level from the "orange" level. The Quebec premier said he is not ruling out additional ...

As Manitoba approaches one year since its first COVID-19 case, Premier Brian Pallister is looking back on the hard lessons learned, the lives lost and how Manitobans have changed.