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Last Updated: Thursday, April 8, 2021 07:58
Despite fears expressed by many in Canada and around the world about the heightened vulnerability Indigenous communities faced from COVID 19, members of those communities–at least the ones living in Canada, it appears–have managed to sidestep the worst of those predictions.
(The 2016 census found that Indigenous peoples in Canada totalled 1,673,785 people, or 4.9% of the national population, with 977,230 First Nations people, 587,545 Métis, and 65,025 Inuit.)
And, the new figures suggest, that COVID-19 cases on reserves in Canada have dropped more than 85 per cent since January.
Elders at the Wikwemikong Nursing Home in Wikwemikong First Nation in Ontario took to social media in March to share the importance of social distancing and self-isolation during the global COVID-19 pandemic. A Statistics Canada study released in June found that 60 per cent of Indigenous people said their mental health has worsened since the onset o