Manitoba

Premier frustrated with health-care workers choosing unpaid leave over vaccine, testing

Manitoba's premier is "frustrated" with health-care workers who won't disclose their vaccination status and are choosing unpaid leave rather than being tested for COVID-19.
'There is some other hesitancy that exists there that really isn't vaccine hesitancy,' Premier Kelvin Goertzen said Friday. (Mikaela MacKenzie/Winnipeg Free Press)

Manitoba's premier is "frustrated" with health-care workers who won't disclose their vaccination status and are choosing unpaid leave rather than being tested for COVID-19.

"There are other provinces who've essentially just said, 'It's vaccination or no other options,'" Kelvin Goertzen told reporters Friday.

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