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Posted: Dec 17, 2020 8:13 PM PT | Last Updated: December 18, 2020
Sadie Cote, a member of the Sweet Grass patrol, hands out a bag containing a face mask and hand sanitizer on Vancouver s Downtown Eastside.(EVAN MITSUI)
The First Nations Health Authority has released new data that supports what First Nations leaders have said since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic that some Indigenous people are harder hit when it comes to contracting the virus.
In B.C. s Northern Health region, nearly 36 per cent of people with confirmed cases are First Nations, even though the Indigenous people there make up less than 17 per cent of that region s population.