The Manitoba authorities is recommending extra individuals obtain a 3rd dose of COVID-19 vaccine.
Well being officers say residents of seniors properties and different congregate residing centres ought to get a booster.
Third-dose eligibility had already been prolonged to private care properties for residents requiring extra medical care, front-line health-care staff and folks residing in First Nations communities.
The province has introduced 130 new COVID-19 instances and three extra deaths.
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Dr. Jazz Atwal, deputy chief public well being officer, says the instances are largely within the northern and southern well being areas.
The variety of individuals with COVID-19 in intensive care has risen to 22 from 17.
Questions on COVID-19? Listed below are some issues you should know:
Symptoms can embrace fever, cough and problem respiration — similar to a chilly or flu. Some individuals can develop a extra extreme sickness. Folks most prone to this embrace older adults and folks with extreme persistent medical circumstances like coronary heart, lung or kidney illness. When you develop signs, contact public health authorities.
To prevent the virus from spreading, consultants advocate frequent handwashing and coughing into your sleeve. Additionally they advocate minimizing contact with others, staying house as a lot as doable and sustaining a distance of two metres from different individuals when you exit. In conditions the place you possibly can’t preserve a secure distance from others, public well being officers advocate the usage of a non-medical face masks or masking to stop spreading the respiratory droplets that may carry the virus. In some provinces and municipalities throughout the nation, masks or face coverings at the moment are necessary in indoor public areas.
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