500 fully vaccinated health-care workers can attend Wednesday’s Winnipeg Jets playoff game – CBC

Announcement made despite public health orders banning gatherings

Jun 01, 2021

Several hundred fully vaccinated health-care workers will be allowed into Bell MTS Place to watch the Winnipeg Jets in their upcoming Stanley Cup playoff series.

The Jets face off against the Montreal Canadiens in Game 1 of the second-round series Wednesday night.

Provincial public health orders prohibit gatherings of any kind. But the Jets announced via Twitter that 500 health-care workers who are fully vaccinated for COVID-19 will be allowed in to watch Games 1 and 2 of the series. Bell MTS Place can seat up to 16,345 fans.

The move comes as Manitoba continues to report high COVID-19 case counts and transmission rates, while hospitals try to get a handle on a record number of COVID-19 ICU patients — a couple dozen of whom have had to be transferred to other provinces.

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