Province’s first COVID-19 doses will immunize 900 Manitobans: Premier On Wednesday Premier Brian Pallister announced 900 health-care workers will be the first in Manitoba to receive a COVID-19 vaccine after doses start to arrive in the province as early as next week.The workers in four critical care units will be followed by other health-care staff, seniors and Indigenous people as more batches of the vaccine arrive.Manitoba is still working out the logistics of how to distribute the vaccine, approved by Health Canada and developed by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and German partner BioNTech.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]The province hopes to vaccinate more than 100,000 people by March, which is.