Posted: Jan 07, 2021 5:00 AM PT | Last Updated: January 7
Community members in Ahousat held a ceremony to honour the nurses who vaccinated dozens of people in the community of about 1,000. (Courtenay Louie)
Residents of 18 remote First Nations communities in B.C. are among the first people in the province to get the Moderna vaccine this week.
While some are feeling nervous, many are thrilled to have first access to the defence against COVID-19. It is a little bit surreal, said Don Speck, a member of the Namgis First Nation in Alert Bay who is getting his vaccine this week.
Last spring, Speck s community faced an outbreak where more than 30 people tested positive and two people died.