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The Federation of Saskatchewan Indigenous Nations is calling on the province to increase its efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19 at Buffalo River Dene Nation.
The community located west of Buffalo Narrows near the Alberta border has been the epicentre of a COVID-19 outbreak since last week.
In a media release issued Monday afternoon, the FSIN is attributing the rapid spread of the virus to a lack of public health orders, RCMP enforcement and restrictions.
âChief Elmer Campbell and his health staff are running out of options and the death of our most vulnerable could increase unless reinforcements are brought in by the Province and RCMP to enforce rules to keep COVID-19 numbers from continuing to climb. We support his calls for action and are calling on Premier Scott Moe to help immediatelyâ FSIN Chief Bobby Cameron said. âWe understand that many community members are frustrated and facing COVID fatigue but we must come togeth
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Chief Bartholomew Tsannie said one resident is in hospital in critical condition and urged members to respect a local lockdown to drive alarmingly high case counts down.
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“The people disobeying need to understand we’re talking about lives here,” Tsannie said.
Hatchet Lake Dene Nation, located more than 800 kilometres northeast of Saskatoon, has become the unlikely epicentre of COVID-19 in a province that has recently dropped its last public health restrictions.
The Northern Inter-Tribal Health Authority (NITHA) said 151 cases of COVID-19 had been linked to the outbreak in the community of roughly 1,200 residents. Tsannie said 128 cases were active as of Tuesday afternoon.
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The number of cases linked to an outbreak on the Hatchet Lake Dene Nation has risen to 117, including 104 that are still considered active, Dr. Nnamdi Ndubuka, medical health officer with the Northern Inter-Tribal Health Authority, told reporters on Wednesday.
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Ndubuka noted Hatchet Bay is a fly-in community without a hospital, which means the three people who remain in hospital from the outbreak had to be flown to facilities elsewhere in the province.