Manitoba's timeline for reaching its target of getting first-doses of COVID-19 vaccines into the arms of at least 70 per cent of eligible Manitobans has been pushed back to the end of June.
Rather than aiming to reach that goal by June 9, health officials have extended the timeline by 21 days to June 30.
The extension is due to slowing demand for first doses, as well as reductions in the number of Moderna doses expected to arrive next week, Johanu Botha, operations lead for the province's vaccine task force, said during a technical briefing on Friday.
"To put it simply, it is becoming a bit harder to book Manitobans in for their first dose," he said.
Botha couldn't say why fewer people are making appointments for their first dose, but said the extension was necessary as the province ramps up its second-dose campaign. As of Friday, anyone who received their first dose on or before April 3 is eligible to book their second dose.
"We just want to give ourselves that timeline, that full 21 days because we can't predict perfectly how the remaining first dosers are going to behave, and at what rate they're going to book," he said.
"It could very well be before the end of June but now it's really up to Manitobans and to their preferences and how they behave."
The province had expected to receive total of 75,000 Moderna doses over the weeks of May 31 and June 7. That has now been cut back to 14,600 the week of May 31, and 3,500 the week of June 7.
With fewer Moderna doses to push through pop-up sites, there will be fewer Pfizer-BioNTech doses to give to youth 12 to 17, which are limited to that vaccine, Botha said.
By June 9, the province expects to have 67 per cent of eligible Manitobans vaccinated with at least one dose, about 33,000 people short of the target of 70 per cent.
The target for completing second doses remains unchanged at the end of July. People eligible for their second dose continue to snap up available appointments, and going forward second doses will make up a growing proportion of all bookings, Botha said.
As of Friday, a total of 816,984 vaccinations had been administered in Manitoba. Over the last week that ended Thursday, the seven-day average number of daily doses administered was 14,492, the highest since the start of the vaccine rollout.
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