All Montana residents over 16 eligible for vaccine starting today

By Medicine Hat News on April 1, 2021.

Montana has opened up vaccine eligibility to all residents over the age of 16 staring April 1, state officials announced this week.

Health authorities in the state of about 1.1 million reported Wednesday they had administered 487,700 total does of the two-phase vaccines and about 191,500 residents were considered fully immunized.

About one-quarter of the 12,000 eligible population on Hill County, Mont. (located south of Cypress County, Alberta), had received a second dose. Active cases there totalled two on Wednesday.

The Hill County Health Department advertised that clinic for 16- to 18-year-olds who booked appointments would go ahead on April 8 at the Holiday Village Mall.

Fed Funds for Frontier

The Village of Frontier, Sask., will receive about $750,000 in federal and provincial grants to help decommission its landfill, according to an announcement Wednesday outlining how Saskatchewan’s $29.5-million share of Ottawa’s Investing in Canada infrastructure plan.

That includes a total of $5.2 million in federal funds to two solar power facilities commissioned by SaskPower in partnership with First Nations in the east of the province as well as a half of a $26-million battery storage system in the City of Regina.

Frontier’s $1-million project to decommission its dump was the only project in the southwest quadrant of the province.

In total, the province will contribute $21.5 million in matching funds for 24 projects, while municipalities or SaskPower will contribute a combined $6.3 million.

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