Manitoba is at an important transitional phase in our COVID-19 response. Public health indicators are stabilizing or improving and as of Tuesday, March 15, the Manitoba chief provincial public health officer has set the pandemic response system to Green (limited risk). TheManitoba First Nations C...
First Nations had crude diagnostic testing rates of up to 103.19 (95% CI 103.06 to 103.32) diagnostic COVID-19 tests/1,000 person-months compared with up to 61.52 (95% CI 61.47 to 61.57) tests/1,000 person-months among AOM. Prioritizing First Nations to receive...
Manitoba to prioritize restaurant employees, grocery store workers for vaccines April 22, 2021 By The Canadian Press Health & Safety Human Resources By Steve LambertWINNIPEG — The Manitoba government is expanding its COVID-19 vaccine program to prioritize first responders, teachers and other front-...
Health Minister Christine Elliott said vaccines could be administered through schools, with both doses given before the next school year, but did not give a precise timeline. Meanwhile, public health officials and politicians alike were working to reassure Canadians about the safety of the Oxford-As...
“We believe in vaccines as one tool we have to help keep Indigenous people safe from COVID-19. We are deeply concerned to see the activities taking place across the country due to a minority of people who disagree with the use of vaccines and other efforts put in place to keep ...
“If we are serious about a reopening in Manitoba, our reopening plan has to include a plan for strengthening our health-care system,” Kinew said. There were 222 Manitobans in hospitals due to COVID-19, including 13 people in intensive-care units. ...