Rodney and Ekaterina Baker flew to Yukon to get coronavirus vaccine intended for White River First Nation, authorities say washingtonpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from washingtonpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Great Canadian Gaming Corp. spokesman Chuck Keeling says in a statement that the company does not comment on personnel matters.
The statement also says the company complies with guidelines from public health authorities in all the jurisdictions where it operates.
“Our overriding focus as a company is doing everything we can to contribute to the containment of COVID-19,” it says.
Yukon officials could only confirm that the two people charged in Whitehorse had travelled to the small community of Beaver Creek near the border with Alaska.
Yukon Community Services Minister John Streicker said Friday the couple who allegedly chartered a plane to Beaver Creek posed as visiting workers and received shots of COVID-19 vaccine at a mobile clinic.
The leader of a remote First Nations community in northern Canada has expressed outrage after a couple from British Columbia travelled there under false pretenses to receive the coronavirus vaccine.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) first reported that Rod Baker, 55, and his wife, Ekaterina Baker, 32, had travelled from Vancouver to Beaver Creek, Yukon, and posed as local workers in order to receive a dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.
Beaver Creek is located over 400km northwest of Whitehorse, the capital of the Yukon territory, near the border with Alaska. The vast majority of the community’s residents – 85 out of 93 residents, according to Canada’s 2016 census – are Indigenous.
Canadian casino CEO, wife accused of posing as motel workers to get Covid vaccine meant for locals Minyvonne Burke
The CEO of a Canadian casino company resigned from his job after he and his wife were accused of posing as motel employees to get doses of the Covid-19 vaccine intended for residents of a remote community.
The couple, identified as Rodney and Ekaterina Baker of Vancouver, arrived in the city of Whitehorse on Jan. 19 and were supposed to quarantine for 14 days.
Instead, they chartered a private plane to Beaver Creek, a small community of fewer than 125 people in Canada s Yukon, on Thursday where a mobile vaccination clinic was administering the first dose of the Moderna shot to locals, according to the CBC television network in Canada.