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SASKATOON On Thursday, the Far North West region recorded another 14 cases of COVID-19, bring the total active cases for the region to 83. The Buffalo River Dene Nation was recently evacuated due to forest fires in the area with residents heading to Lloydminster and North Battleford. “That evacuation has resulted in several risks for transmission of COVID-19, and unfortunately, we have reported an increase in the number of cases amongst the residents of Buffalo River,” said Northern Inter-Tribal Health Authority (NITHA) Chief Medical Officer Dr. Nnamdi Ndubuka. Several communities were forced to evacuate due to the wildfires in the area.
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Twenty-four of those new cases were in the far north west zone. It now has 72 active cases overall, the most of any region. According to Dr. Nnamdi Ndubuka, medical health officer with the Northern Inter-Tribal Health Authority (NITHA), there are now 56 active case on reserves in the far north west. Most of those are on the Buffalo River Dene Nation, west of Buffalo Narrows near the Alberta border.
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Ndubuka said the increase there “resulted from the community displacement and evacuation due to forest fires.”
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