Province needs vaccine info from Ottawa, Friesen says
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Health Minister Cameron Friesen says he is still looking for more information from Ottawa so that Manitoba can finalize its distribution plans for the much-awaited COVID-19 vaccine.
Federal-provincial health ministers held a teleconference Tuesday, and on Wednesday, Friesen said there are still too many unanswered questions about how a new vaccine is to be rolled out.
He said he has asked for another federal-provincial ministers meeting specifically on coronavirus vaccine distribution.
“Right now, what Manitobans need, what Canadians need, is for the federal government to indicate explicitly the who, what, where, when and why when it comes to vaccine in Canada,” Friesen told reporters.
There is only so much advanced planning that the province can do until it receives more details from Ottawa, he said, repeating concerns he raised a week ago.
“We need the federal government to say what’s happening,” he said.
In the United States, more progress appears to have been made on vaccine production and distribution, he said. Canada, by contrast, appears to be taking “a slow-lane approach to vaccine.”
