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Residents, including Chief Wilfred King, far right, stand at a checkpoint restricting access to their community to slow the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in their remote First Nations community of Gull Bay, Ontario, Canada April 27, 2020. PHOTO BY DAVID JACKSON /Reuters PNimg Article content If Canada’s Indigenous population was its own nation, it would rank five spots ahead of Canada on Bloomberg’s world vaccine tracker, which compares countries based on how many doses of a CO...

Posted: Jan 21, 2021 6:00 AM CT | Last Updated: January 21 More than a third of Oujé-Bougoumous population of 980 people is self-isolating after 27 cases of COVID-19 were confirmed Since Jan. 7 in the tight-knit Cree community.(CBC North/ Jaime Little) With more than a third of Oujé-Bougoumous entire population of 980 people currently in mandatory self-isolation, Chief Curtis Bosum has had a very busy start to 2021.   Since Jan. 7, there have been 27 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in this ti...

Posted: Jan 19, 2021 5:00 AM CT | Last Updated: January 19 Nathalie Beaulieu, right, manager of northern operations centre at the Cree Board of Health and Social Services of James Bay, looks on as cases of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine are loaded onto an Air Creebec charter plane Saturday in Montreal. (CBHSSJB/Rodolphe Beaulieu-Poulin) Health officials in northern Quebec Cree communities are pleased with the early rollout of a region-wide vaccination campaign launched in a snowstorm over the wee...

Boxes of doses of Modernas COVID-19 vaccine arrived by plane in nine Cree communities in Quebecs James Bay region over the weekend and were immediately put to work to protect the community, the head of the regional health board said Sunday.

Boxes of doses of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine arrived by plane in nine Cree communities in Quebec's James Bay region over the weekend and were immediately put to work to protect the community, the head of the regional health board said Sunday.

Posted: Jan 06, 2021 1:08 PM CT | Last Updated: January 6 Laura Brien, a resident of the Mistissini Elders Home, was the first person in Eeyou Istchee to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Brien received the Moderna vaccine from local nurse April Iserhoff. On Tuesday, residents of the Elders Home, front-line health-care workers and first responders were vaccinated as part of this preliminary effort to prepare for the main campaign.(CBHSSJB/Joshua Loon) Quebec Cree communities are set to begin an...