{"id":9201,"date":"2025-09-22T16:22:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9201"},"modified":"2025-09-23T12:52:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T16:52:46","slug":"manitoba-offers-covid-19-shots-for-free-as-some-provinces-begin-charging-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/manitoba-offers-covid-19-shots-for-free-as-some-provinces-begin-charging-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"Manitoba offers COVID-19 shots for free as some provinces begin charging residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manitoba will continue covering the cost of COVID-19 shots as some other provinces begin charging residents.<\/p>\n<p>The vaccinations are free for anyone six months and up and will remain that way in Manitoba, according to the province.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are no plans to change Manitoba&#8217;s policy at this time,&#8221; reads a statement from a Manitoba government spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes as <a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/calgary\/alberta-covid-19-naci-samir-sinha-vaccinations-1.7573148\">Alberta<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/montreal\/quebec-covid-19-vaccines-1.7636666\">Quebec<\/a> recently announced they would stop offering COVID-19 shots for free to the general public.<\/p>\n<p>Both provinces will only cover the cost for people in\u00a0specific high-risk groups. The rest will have to pay between $150 and $180 per shot in Quebec or $110 in Alberta.<\/p>\n<p>Saskatchewan plans to also keep COVID-19 vaccines free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manitoba will continue covering the cost of COVID-19 shots as some other provinces begin charging residents.<\/p>\n<p>The vaccinations are free for anyone six months and up and will remain that way in Manitoba, according to the province.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are no plans to change Manitoba&#8217;s policy at this time,&#8221; reads a statement from a Manitoba government spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes as <a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/calgary\/alberta-covid-19-naci-samir-sinha-vaccinations-1.7573148\">Alberta<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/montreal\/quebec-covid-19-vaccines-1.7636666\">Quebec<\/a> recently announced they would stop offering COVID-19 shots for free to the general public.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/manitoba-offers-covid-19-shots-for-free-as-some-provinces-begin-charging-residents\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Manitoba offers COVID-19 shots for free as some provinces begin charging residents<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[315,96,18,282,70,14,362,15],"class_list":["post-9201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-alberta","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-manitoba","tag-quebec","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-saskatchewan","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9203,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9201\/revisions\/9203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}