An additional 900 priority healthcare workers in Manitoba will be immunized against COVID-19 next week.
Premier Brian Pallister made the announcement on Friday, following confirmation of Manitoba’s second shipment of the Pfizer vaccine.
The first few hundred doses of the Pfizer vaccine were administered this week to 900 front line healthcare workers.
As the vaccination requires two doses, a second appointment is required in 19 to 23 days.
Manitoba’s only immunization clinic is currently operating at the University of Manitoba’s Rady Faculty of Health Sciences campus — but the Premier says additional vaccination clinics will be set up throughout the province.
The earliest doses of the COVID-19 vaccine arriving in Manitoba are only available for eligible health-care workers at this time:
• those who work in critical care units, born on or before Dec. 31, 1970
• work in acute care facilities, born on or before Dec. 31, 1960
• work in long term care facilities, born on or before Dec. 31, 1960
• be assigned to COVID-19 immunization clinics
Pallister says eligibility criteria will be expanded once additional shipments are confirmed by the federal government, “so we can work toward providing a vaccine to all Manitobans who wish to receive one.”
