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<\/a>Adapted from Google maps by Roy L Hales<\/p><\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
Outbreak among the Tla\u2019amin Nation<\/h2>\n
The number of confirmed COVID cases among the\u00a0Tla\u2019amin Nation<\/a>\u00a0has\u00a0now reached 28<\/a>. Another 21 people were tested yesterday and the results flown to Vancouver. The village is in lock down until 5 PM Thursday, when the results of the tests are known.<\/p>\n Children and educational support staff are being kept home from school.<\/p>\n Groceries are only obtainable by delivery. Telephone orders are being received at the Stockpile Market, Quality Foods, Pacific Market Point and Save on Foods. The Wildwood Public House is delivering take-out to the village. A free food hamper is being offered to those who need it.<\/p>\n On Monday, the\u00a0band issued a statement\u00a0<\/a>explaining the need for this lockdown.<\/p>\n \u201cTo some, this seemed like a drastic measure. Yet, every day \u2026 we have seen more and more of our relatives testing positive and confirming that they too have been impacted.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWe recognize that the Order is making some people feel anxious, sad, and angry. We are worried about our families and how our kids will be treated when then return to school. Not being allowed to leave the village reminds many of us of a time when our movements were policed by outsiders. Our leadership and frontline workers share these feelings with you.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Chief Clint Williams has also expressed concerns<\/a>\u00a0about the effects that heavy smoke, due to wildfires raging in the United States, is having on sick band members who tested positive and are recovering at home.<\/p>\n \u00a0the virus that causes COVID-19<\/a>\u00a0by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) via Flickr (CC BY SA, 2.0 License)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n In related news, Island Health reports there are currently\u00a0\u201cno COVID-19\u00a0outbreaks\u201d<\/a>\u00a0at their facilities. The most up to date\u00a0data for Vancouver Island was posted yesterday<\/a>, at which point there were a\u00a0total of 12 active cases<\/a>. As there are close to 900,000 people on the island, only one out of every 73,000 people are currently infected. None of these were hospitalized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Roy L Hales This is a Cortes Radio COVID update for September 16th, 2020. Firstly, some news from a village on the Sunshine Coast, about 26 kms south of Cortes Island by water. Outbreak among the Tla\u2019amin Nation The number of confirmed COVID cases among the\u00a0Tla\u2019amin Nation\u00a0has\u00a0now reached 28. Another 21 people were tested…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":10178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[218],"tags":[314,1200,818],"radio":[252],"origine":[280,266,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10173"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=10173"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=10173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>Currently no outbreaks on Vancouver Island<\/h2>\n