Federal Update on COVID-19 in Indigenous Communities – April 7, 2021
In a news conference on Parliament Hill, Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller provides an update on the federal government’s response to COVID-19 (coronavirus disease), focusing on the pandemic’s impact on Indigenous communities in Canada. He is joined by Valerie Gideon (the senior assistant deputy minister for the First Nations and Inuit Health Branch of Indigenous Services Canada) and Dr. Evan Adams (deputy chief medical officer of public health for Indigenous Services Canada). (April 7, 2021)
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Beginning on April 6, SaskTel Centre will be home to a COVID-19 vaccine clinic operated by the Saskatoon Tribal Council. It will be open to Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. (Jennifer Quesnel/CBC)
The Saskatoon Tribal Council is set to open a COVID-19 vaccine clinic for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people next week at SaskTel Centre. Whoever registers will get a call, whether they re First Nations or non-First Nations, Saskatoon Tribal Council Chief Mark Arcand said on Wednesday. We re here to serve everybody. That s the goal, get as many people vaccinated [as possible].
The clinic, which will open on April 6 and is intended to operate for at least four months, will administer vaccines to people in the same eligible age groups as those being served at provincially-run clinics, Arcand said.
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