The province says the shot went to Jimmy Favel in the village of Île-à-la-Crosse, nearly 500 kilometres north of
Favel and his granddaughter, who is a nurse in the community, were among the first to be inoculated with the
Health officials plan to use the
The province says more than 4,200 doses of the
Those doctors and nurses still need their second shot to be fully immunized, which officials say will happen soon.
Five more people, all 80 or older, were reported Tuesday to have died from COVID-19, bringing the province's pandemic death toll to 165.
Another 153 new infections were recorded, 166 people were in hospital and 31 of those were receiving intensive care.
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