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Doses of COVID-19 vaccine expected in 60 B.C. First Nations by next week – Houston Today
B.C. has allocated 25,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine to First Nations for distribution by the end of February
Doses of COVID-19 vaccine are expected to reach close to 60 First Nations in British Columbia by the end of next week.
Dr. Shannon McDonald, the acting chief medical officer for the First Nations Health Authority, says there have been significant increases in the number of COVID-19 cases in the last two weeks.
She says “on-reserve” cases previously represented a quarter of the more than 2,500 reported cases among Indigenous people in B.C., but that’s risen to 40 per cent.
McDonald says 600 infections…
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