Volume 16 • No. 24 • December 16-31, 2020 Publication Mailing Account #41721512
Jane De Leon
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18 Mylene Dizon, Nora Aunor & Kyline Alcantara
Vaccinations begin today Premier urges Manitobans to keep up fundamental precautions
The first doses of a COVID-19 vaccine in Manitoba were administered to front line healthcare workers today, December 16, 2020, at the University of Manitoba Rady Faculty of Health Sciences campus on McDermot Avenue in Winnipeg. The province began booking appointments on Saturday, December 12, in anticipation of the safe arrival of the PfizerBioNTech vaccine, which was approved for use by Health Canada last week. As of press time, 1,950 doses of the vaccine are expected to arrive, which is enough to immunize about 900 recipients with two doses each. These first doses will be
administered to healthcare workers based on their ages and depth of involvement with COVID-19 patients – including
those who: • work in critical care units, born on or before December 31, See VACCINATIONS p3