BANFF, ALTA. -- With COVID-19 infection rates taking off in Wood Buffalo and Banff, the province will send the first 30,000 doses of the Jansen Johnson & Johnson vaccine directly to the hard-hit areas. Alberta leads the country in infections per 100,000 population with 469. But Wood Buffalo has an infection rate of 1,500 per 100,000 population, while Banff is at about 1,160. Local leaders in both regions expressed their gratitude to the province for the action. “We have no medical resources at our grasp that will help us out because some of our people are being turned away at the regional hospital as we speak,” says Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation.