'So many challenges': how COVID-19 outbreak is impacting one tiny Cree town
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...
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