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/CNW/ - Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) is committed to supporting Indigenous communities in their response to COVID-19 and is working closely with Indigenous...

An effort to vaccinate youth in Ontario's fly-in First Nations is set to launch on May 31.

The province has provided new details about supply, vaccines for youth — and its plan for administering second shots.

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Article content They’ve replaced the general with a colonel, the tank commander with the combat surgeon and in doing so, Ontario is also moving up the vaccination of frontline workers. The change at the top of Ontario’s vaccination task force comes as Rick Hillier, the retired general hired to establish Ontario’s vaccine distribution system left his four-month post on Wednesday. On Thursday, Homer Tien, a member of the task force, a colonel in the Canadian Armed Forces and a former combat...

Posted: Apr 04, 2021 2:41 PM ET | Last Updated: April 4 Dr. Homer Tien, president and CEO of Ornge Air Ambulance and a trauma surgeon, will be operational lead of the task force as the province prepares to move into Phase 2 of its COVID-19 vaccine rollout, according to Stephen Warner, spokesperson for Solicitor General Sylvia Jones.(Rachel Scott/Ornge) The Ontario government says it has chosen Dr. Homer Tien, the CEO and president of Ornge Air Ambulance, to lead its COVID-19 Vaccine Distribut...

All 1st doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered in remote northern Ontario First Nations © Twitter/Neskantaga Chief Chris Moonias The Ontario government said its finished administering all first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to people living in 31 fly-in northern First Nations and Moosonee. The 31 remote communities and Moosonee were selected as a part of a vaccine initiative dubbed Operation Remote Immunity, which was set up to offer coronavirus immunizations to Indigenous elder care home res...

First doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been delivered to all 31 of northern Ontario’s remote fly-in First Nations communities, the ministry said in a press release Monday.

Article content What you need to know, at a glance New federal modelling indicates COVID-19 variants could fuel a surge of 20,000 new cases per day by mid-March if public health restrictions are relaxed further There are now fewer than 33,000 active cases in Canada, a 60 per cent drop from a month ago. Even with current restrictions, the spread of the variants could push Canada’s caseload to more than 10,000 new diagnoses per day by April Federal government extends 12 weeks of eligibility to ...

Chiefs of Ontario: Inmates returning home, workers coming onto reserve pose COVID 19 spread concerns, say chiefs  February 5, 2021  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Delegates at the Chiefs of Ontario’s virtual Special Chiefs Assembly Feb. 3 voiced concerns over testing and the need to inoculate a wider range of people as the COVID-19 vaccination program rolls out. While Elders rightfully remain a priority, chiefs said attention needed to be paid to workers coming on reserve to do vital ...