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Residents, including Chief Wilfred King, far right, stand at a checkpoint restricting access to their community to slow the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in their remote First Nations community of Gull Bay, Ontario, Canada April 27, 2020. PHOTO BY DAVID JACKSON /Reuters PNimg Article content If Canada’s Indigenous population was its own nation, it would rank five spots ahead of Canada on Bloomberg’s world vaccine tracker, which compares countries based on how many doses of a COVID-19 vaccine have been administered per 100 people. That’s how successful the vaccination progra...

Posted: Jan 21, 2021 6:00 AM CT | Last Updated: January 21 More than a third of Oujé-Bougoumou's population of 980 people is self-isolating after 27 cases of COVID-19 were confirmed Since Jan. 7 in the tight-knit Cree community.(CBC North/ Jaime Little) With more than a third of Oujé-Bougoumou's entire population of 980 people currently in mandatory self-isolation, Chief Curtis Bosum has had a very busy start to 2021.   Since Jan. 7, there have been 27 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in this tight-knit Cree community, located more than 730 kilometres north of Montreal.  Many of the people�...

Posted: Jan 19, 2021 5:00 AM CT | Last Updated: January 19 Nathalie Beaulieu, right, manager of northern operations centre at the Cree Board of Health and Social Services of James Bay, looks on as cases of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine are loaded onto an Air Creebec charter plane Saturday in Montreal. (CBHSSJB/Rodolphe Beaulieu-Poulin) Health officials in northern Quebec Cree communities are pleased with the early rollout of a region-wide vaccination campaign launched in a snowstorm over the weekend.  Shipments of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine were delivered safely Saturday across the nine in...

Boxes of doses of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine arrived by plane in nine Cree communities in Quebec's James Bay region over the weekend and were immediately put to work to protect the community, the head of the regional health board said Sunday.

Boxes of doses of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine arrived by plane in nine Cree communities in Quebec's James Bay region over the weekend and were immediately put to work to protect the community, the head of the regional health board said Sunday.