COVID-19 in Indigenous communities: 75% of First Nations and Inuit adults have had 1st vaccine dose
As COVID-19 vaccinations increase across the country, the number of active cases is dropping in First Nations and Inuit communities are dropping according to Indigenous Services Canada.
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Posted: May 26, 2021 11:01 AM ET | Last Updated: May 26
Minister of Indigenous Services Marc Miller holds a news conference in Ottawa in March.(Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press)
With 75 per cent of adults living in First Nations and Inuit communities partially vaccinated against COVID-19, the number of active cases is dropping according to the latest data from Indigenous Services Canada.
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I reviewed the freshly released report of Ontario’s Long-Term Care Commission with profound sadness Saturday.
It wasn’t just because nearly 4,000 long-term care residents have died of COVID so far my 91-year-old dad being one of them in a province that was ill prepared for the pandemic and whose handling of the first and second waves was a veritable train wreck.
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But it was because the carefully crafted 332-page report was released late Friday night when it was too late to garner much attention a sign, I believe, that the provincial government has no remorse, very little understanding of the destruction it caused by poor planning and bureaucratic ineptitude, and likely little intention of learning from its mistakes.