(Associated Press)

By rdnewsNOW staff

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Shandro, Hinshaw to give COVID-19 vaccine update

Dec 14, 2020 | 9:39 AM

Provincial officials will provide an update today on the COVID-19 vaccine in Alberta.

Tyler Shandro, Minister of Health, Paul Wynnyk, chair, COVID-19 Vaccine Task Force, and Dr. Deena Hinshaw, chief medical officer of health, will give the update during a news conference scheduled to begin at noon.

You can watch the news conference here once it begins.

Last Wednesday, Premier Jason Kenney announced a task force to execute Alberta’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution.

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Shandro said vaccinations in Alberta would begin this Wednesday, Dec. 16 with the first 3,900 doses going to ICU doctors and nurses, respiratory therapists and long-term care workers throughout the province.

Staff from two hospitals in each of Calgary and Edmonton will be the first to get the vaccine.