Posted: Jan 20, 2021 10:56 AM CT | Last Updated: January 21
Twenty-four members of the Canadian Armed Forces landed in Garden Hill First Nation on Wednesday.(Submitted by Dino Flett)
Members of the Canadian Armed Forces have arrived in Garden Hill First Nation to help fight what federal Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller called a very, very alarming spike in COVID-19 cases.
The northern Manitoba community had 290 active cases as of Tuesday, said Alex McDougall, executive director of Four Arrows Regional Health Authority, including 38 new cases announced that day.
Miller and Indigenous Services deputy minister Christiane Fox were guests on a Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Facebook Live conversation on Wednesday.
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Through discussions with people in the region who received the shot and others tasked with organizing vaccination efforts, The Reminder can confirm people in Creighton, Denare Beach and Pelican Narrows have received first doses of the Moderna vaccine. Other communities in the far north east 2 health zone may have received and began administering vaccines, but accounts have not yet been independently verified. Vaccinations in the Creighton/Denare Beach area have taken place at the Creighton Provincial Building health office and have been by appointment only. Vaccinations are now available only to Saskatchewan residents over the age of 75, with the minimum age dropping from 80 Jan. 13.
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Care homes, First Nations ready for innoculations
Last Modified: 6:20 AM CST Monday, Jan. 11, 2021 | Updates
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Elders at Ochekwi Sipi Personal Care Home in Fisher River Cree Nation will get the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine Monday as doses are rolled out to select homes in Manitoba. (John Woods / The Canadian Press files)
Elders at Ochekwi Sipi Personal Care Home in Fisher River Cree Nation will be among the first long-term care residents in Manitoba to get the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine Monday as doses are rolled out to select homes in Manitoba.
Elders at Ochekwi Sipi Personal Care Home in Fisher River Cree Nation will be among the first long-term care residents in Manitoba to get the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine Monday as doses are rolled out to select homes in Manitoba.
On Friday, the AMC said 50 per cent of all active COVID cases in Manitoba are among First Nations people.
Anderson said people should go to the AMC, Southern Chiefs Organization and Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak for reliable information around the vaccine plan.
Addressing the fears
AMC Grand Chief Arlen Dumas said some of the concerns that First Nations have around medical treatments are legitimate. We have to be honest about where the fear comes from, he said. As younger people, in our experience, we have sort of escaped federally sanctioned experiments that were done on our population. These things that were happening to our people… There are people alive today that took part in these experiments. However, it is a different time and a different era.