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Sioux Valley Dakota Nation borders the heavily travelled Trans-Canada Highway in western Manitoba, yet the community held back waves of COVID-19 cases that swept the area last year. In the opposite corner of the province, Shamattawa First Nation, a remote fly-in community in northeastern Manitoba, had an outbreak so severe that the Canadian military was flown in to help after one-third of the 1,500 residents were infected. MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS COVID-19 checkstops on the roads into Peguis FN only allowing residents and essential workers in. How the two communities, situated 90...

Manitoba First Nations communities with personal care homes are first in line to receive their share...

Shamattawa chief frustrated as First Nation rapid response team leaves community amid COVID-19 outbreak As a First Nations rapid response team pulls out of Shamattawa First Nation in northeastern Manitoba, the community’s chief says now isn’t the time to withdraw testing capacity from a reserve battling a growing COVID-19 outbreak. Social Sharing CBC News · Posted: Dec 19, 2020 9:17 PM CT | Last Updated: December 20, 2020 Shamattawa First Nation Chief Eric Redhead said widespread testing is a big part of the community's pandemic planning, and with the rapid response team gone, their ca...

Posted: Dec 14, 2020 5:00 AM CT | Last Updated: December 15, 2020 Military supports fight against COVID-19 in Shamattawa First Nation The National4 months ago 2:01 Roughly 60 members of the military are in northern Manitoba’s Shamattawa First Nation to help the small fly-in community fight the COVID-19 outbreak that has touched nearly every one of the 1,300 residents.2:01 In the frigid cold, the people of Shamattawa First Nation are waging a battle against COVID-19. On the front lines, 18-year-old Karl Canabie has been hired to guard a school where those who have tested positive have ...

The latest on the coronavirus outbreak for Dec. 14. Social Sharing Posted: Dec 14, 2020 4:11 PM ET | Last Updated: December 14, 2020 With COVID-19 immunization officially underway in Canada, thinking through who should get inoculated in the next stage. Canada Revenue Agency sends 441,000 'education letters' to Canadians who may have to repay pandemic CERB benefits. Dozens of Canadian military members are on the ground to help Shamattawa First Nation in northern Manitoba deal with virus outbreak. Canada wasn't the only country beginning its vaccination campaign on Monday. At the Long Island Je...