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Vaccine-eligibility priorities to include younger First Nations people

Plan designed to free up hospital capacity, provincial officials say

Dylan Robertson
7:00 PM CST Monday, Feb. 1, 2021
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Kevin Rollason:

Manitoba seniors starting to fill care-home beds again

JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSJohn Dobbin, whose parents had COVID-19 and have just been admitted to Beacon Hill long term care home, is photographed outside the home in Winnipeg Monday, February 1, 2021.</p><p>Reporter: Rollason</p>

Temur Durrani:

Experts predict more COVID cases as restrictions loosen, shoppers swarm malls

Daniel Crump / Winnipeg Free Press. The line of customers snakes around the corner at IKEA.</p>

Dan Lett:

Unreasonable expectations: COVID-19 exposes holes in vaccine production, distribution

A health worker shows a vial of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine for COVID-19 being used during a priority vaccination program for the elderly at a vaccination center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, Feb. 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)</p>

Melissa Martin:

Pandemic weight heavy on health-care professionals redeployed to ICUs

The medical intensive care unit at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Mikaela MacKenzie - POOL</p>

Malak Abas:

Guide not surprised after couple found dead in ice-fishing tent

Ice fishers need to keep a door or window open if using a propane heater in a shack or tent, say local guides. (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press)

Mike McIntyre:

'I've got to cheer my boys on': Tkachuks' grandfather

Don Oster's daughter, Chantal, met Keith Tkachuk when he was playing for Jets 1.0 in the early 1990s. They married in 1997, after the team relocated to Arizona, and started their family.

Eva Wasney :

Musician found inspiration surreptitiously observing crafty foxes in his yard

Editorial:

Military coup clouds Myanmar's future

Don Wong / The Associated Press FILE</p><p>Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi was arrested during a military coup.</p>

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