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Registration is now open for health care providers to receive influenza and COVID-19 vaccines from provincial stock, as part of the 2025/26 Vaccine-Preventable Respiratory Illnesses Immunization Program. This registration is required to receive the vaccines shipments. 

Overview

📅 Providers are strongly recommended to register by no later than August 15, 2025

📲 Please visit www​.man​i​to​ba​.ca/​f​l​u​d​i​s​t​r​i​b​ution to review the program requirements and complete this registration form

📌 Please note, a five-digit Holding Point Code (Client ID) is required in order to complete the registration. If your location does not have an account with the provincial vaccine warehouse, please complete and submit this form

Vaccine Delivery Plan

Manitoba will begin distributing influenza and COVID-19 vaccines as soon as they become available. Timelines are dependent on manufacturers’ ability to successfully supply vaccine after receiving Health Canada approval (anticipated in September) and are estimated based on timelines identified in national vaccine contracts. 

Manitoba receives less than half of its total vaccine order at the first vaccine delivery milestone in September, with the remainder being delivered over the course of the following several weeks. Providers should expect to receive their first order in two separate deliveries and should review their confirmation email to find how many doses they will receive and how these will be divided between the first and second deliveries. 

Priority locations (i.e. Hospitals, First Nations Communities and Long-Term Care facilities) will receive vaccine first and will have access to weekly ordering and deliveries. 

All other registered providers will be placed into one of two distribution groups and will have access to biweekly vaccine deliveries for the start of the campaign, contingent on vaccine manufacturers fulfilling their contractual obligations: 

• GROUP 1: All locations with Holding Point Codes ending in 0 to 4 

• GROUP 2: All locations with Holding Point Codes ending in 5 to 9 

Fridge Clean-Up

• Please return expired publicly funded vaccines according to the Vaccines and Biologics Return Policy and Procedure available at: https://​www​.gov​.mb​.ca/​h​e​a​l​t​h​/​p​u​b​l​i​c​h​e​a​l​t​h​/​c​d​c​/​d​i​v​/​d​o​c​s​/​v​b​r​p​p.pdf

• Manitoba may receive credit for returned vaccines, and this is especially important for influenza vaccines at this time of year. 

If you have any questions, please contact the province’s Communicable Disease Control Unit by emailing vaccines@​gov.​mb.​ca

Read Public Health’s vaccine bulletin here.