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The First Nations Health Authority has released new data that supports what First Nations leaders have said since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic that some Indigenous people are harder hit when it comes to contracting the virus.
In B.C. s Northern Health region, nearly 36 per cent of people with confirmed cases are First Nations, even though the Indigenous people there make up less than 17 per cent of that region s population.
COVID-19 cases among First Nations in Northern Health more than double rest of population
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New data released by the First Nations Health Authority shows nearly 36 percent of people with confirmed COVID-19 cases in the Northern health region are First Nations people.
But they only make up 17 percent of the total population.
That places their infection rate at more than twice the average.
First Nations leaders have said that the indigenous population has been suffering far more from COVID-19 than the general population.
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A family on Shamattawa First Nation in northern Manitoba poses for a photo through their window. The community is among the First Nations in Manitoba grappling with high COVID-19 numbers, but there are still many questions about when, and how, the communities will get COVID-19 vaccines.(Tyson Koschik/CBC)
Indigenous people are disproportionately affected by COVID-19, but they were not first in line to get vaccinated when Manitobans started rolling up their sleeves on Wednesday. Our elders, we want them to be given priority, and anyone who is immune-compromised, is what we are hoping for, said Jerry Daniels, grand chief of the Southern Chiefs Organization, which represents 34 First Nations and 80,000 people in southern Manitoba nearly half of whom live off reserve.
by Province of British Columbia on Tuesday Dec 15 2020
Today marks the first day of British Columbia’s provincewide COVID-19 immunizations, the most comprehensive vaccine program to ever be delivered in B.C.
Over the coming days, approximately 4,000 health-care workers in British Columbia will be rolling up their sleeves to receive the first approved COVID-19 vaccine.
Nisha Yunus, a 64-year old residential care aid was one of the first people in British Columbia to receive the COVID-19 immunization. Yunus has worked in the same long-term care home in the Vancouver Coastal Health region for 41 years, all in the same unit and on the same floor.