By Steph Seidel
Northern Lights Regional Health Centre // Steph Seidel - Harvard Broadcasting
The active total of COVID-19 cases in Fort McMurray is continuing to rise.
The province announced on Saturday 2,433 new cases in the province over the past 24 hours.
There are currently 22,504 active cases across Alberta, while there have been a total of 193,167 positive tests.
There are also 646 Albertans in the hospital for the virus, 152 of which are in ICUs.
Locally, Fort McMurray added 170 new cases and 111 recoveries in the past 24 hours which puts the active total at 1,350.
The rural areas added seven new cases, raising the total of active cases to 32.
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Indigenous leaders worry how a year of lost cultural gatherings impacts their communities
April 29, 2021
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Indigenous leaders worry about how losing cultural gatherings this past year is impacting the mental health of their communities, as well as opportunities to celebrate their culture.
Chief Allan Adam of Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN), and board president of the Athabasca Tribal Council (ATC), said losing cultural gatherings is one of many factors hurting mental health in Fort Chipewyan. The community usually hosts seven cultural events annually that bring people together.
“You’re really starting to see the social impacts of not gathering. People are wandering around feeling lost and isolated,” said Adam. “Cultural activities keep people together.”
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FORT MCMURRAY First Nation and Métis leaders are accusing Premier Jason Kenney of blaming their communities for COVID-19’s viral spread in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo (RMWB), and demanding an apology.
During an April 26 press conference, Kenney said there have been reports of widespread vaccine hesitancy in Indigenous communities, pointing to a February CBC article mentioning that 576 people out of 1,100 residents had received a vaccine.
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All Fort Chipewyan residents were made eligible for COVID-19 vaccines earlier this year because of the community’s isolated location and limited health care resources. Kenney also said the RMWB has a large vaccine supply sitting unused.
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First Nation and Métis leaders are accusing Premier Jason Kenney of blaming their communities for COVID-19’s viral spread in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo (RMWB), and demanding an apology.
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All Fort Chipewyan residents were made eligible for COVID-19 vaccines earlier this year because of the community’s isolated location and limited health care resources. Kenney also said the RMWB has a large vaccine supply sitting unused.
“The population up there is disproportionately Indigenous,” said Kenney. “We’ve had a much lower age eligibility for vaccination for that First Nations population, and we have done a lot of extra outreach efforts working with the First Nations to address vaccine hesitancy and to make it as convenient as possible in a culturally sensitive w