• Who We Are
    • Project Description
    • Research Team
    • Partners
    • Staff
    • Get Involved
    • Contact
  • International Gathering
    • Keynote Speakers
    • Panel Speakers
    • Program
    • Virtual Archive – Rewatch the Gathering
    • Sponsors
  • Our Data Indigenous
  • Kana Wain Ndida
  • Resources
    • Mapping the Pandemic
    • E-Newsletter
    • Helpful Links
      • Health & Safety
      • Mapping Cases in Indigenous Communities
    • Infographics
    • Community Voices
      • Community Stories
      • Share Your Story
    • Webinars
      • Proposal Development Workshop
    • Kahkakiw
      • Colouring Pages
Covid-19 Indigenous
  • Who We Are
    • Project Description
    • Research Team
    • Partners
    • Staff
    • Get Involved
    • Contact
  • International Gathering
    • Keynote Speakers
    • Panel Speakers
    • Program
    • Virtual Archive – Rewatch the Gathering
    • Sponsors
  • Our Data Indigenous
  • Kana Wain Ndida
  • Resources
    • Mapping the Pandemic
    • E-Newsletter
    • Helpful Links
      • Health & Safety
      • Mapping Cases in Indigenous Communities
    • Infographics
    • Community Voices
      • Community Stories
      • Share Your Story
    • Webinars
      • Proposal Development Workshop
    • Kahkakiw
      • Colouring Pages

Media

  • Home
  • Media
  • COVID-19 Daily News Digest – September 11, 2020

COVID-19 Daily News Digest – September 11, 2020

  • Posted by Kelly.Janz
  • Categories Media
  • Date September 11, 2020

Despite early, strict quarantine measures, Peru has worst COVID-19 death rate in the world

Peru is now the country with the most severe coronavirus outbreak in the world by most key metrics, despite having declared what came to be one of the strictest and longest quarantines in the world on March 15, when military and police flooded the streets to enforce stay-at-home orders.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/article245600805.html

Provincial research network aims to improve health outcomes for Indigenous Peoples

The network’s virtual launch in June included sharing best practices and innovations already occurring within Indigenous primary care in the province during the COVID-19 pandemic. These included an incident command structure with weekly video conferences involving 46 Indigenous health centres, a  COVID response unit going to homes seven days a week to conduct testing, offering language translations within call centres, and co-ordinating translation for Indigenous Elders.

https://news.ucalgary.ca/news/provincial-research-network-aims-improve-health-outcomes-indigenous-peoples

Charting a Post-Pandemic Path for Urban Indigenous People

“There’s a gap in the research and the data that establishes the needs of the urban Indigenous population and also provides information around the needs for COVID-19 response,” said Bingham. While B.C. collects data about status First Nations people, those who are displaced from their homelands or who do not have status are not included in these measures.

“We have really amazing community-based services that are offering people cultural supports and are able to mobilize really quickly,” she added. “So it’s just a matter of breaking down some of the barriers to getting the adequate support to these agencies who are already doing all of this hard work.”

https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/09/10/Post-Pandemic-Path-Urban-Indigenous/

BEYOND LOCAL: COVID-19 may present the opportunity to embrace outdoor education

Many educators and organizations already devoted to land-based learning are adapting to the COVID-19 context. Some Inuit educators are welcoming the opportunity to reiterate the significance of teaching traditional skills that will allow survival on the land.

Policy-makers could support schools everywhere to take students outside to learn to plant a vegetable garden, catch a fish, raise a chicken and learn many other land-based skills.

https://www.thoroldnews.com/local-news/beyond-local-covid-19-may-present-the-opportunity-to-embrace-outdoor-education-2679587

COVID-19 Complicates Native American Census Count

“Historically, the trust issue is that those aren’t designated tribal reservation areas,” she said. “That’s why they’re hard to count, and that’s why they fall through the cracks. Because it’s not a tribally designated area. It’s a ceded land.” 

She goes on to explain that despite efforts by the government to fix problems, doubts are widespread, and some point to that as a reason to avoid taking the census.  

COVID-19 Complicates Native American Census Count

Grappling with loss of life and connection, Native youth become leaders of tomorrow

Added Seth Stevens: “We don’t believe in coincidence. We have to believe, and even as Navajo believe, that this is for a purpose and reason, and we can easily miss it if we don’t really look into it. If we just focus on our pains, we can easily miss the purpose behind it.”

Grappling with loss of life and connection, Native youth become leaders of tomorrow

B.C. First Nation declares state of emergency due to COVID-19 outbreak

Tla’amin Nation leaders posted several statements online notifying residents of emergency measures that have been put in place as they work with provincial health authorities and the First Nations Health Authority to deal with the outbreak. 

In addition to the four confirmed cases, several other people in the community are exhibiting symptoms, according to the Tla’amin Nation’s notice. 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-first-nation-covid-outbreak-state-emergency-1.5716803

Ontario Boosts Mental-Health Funds For Front-Line Workers, Indigenous Kids

“We know this virus has had a wider impact. It shows itself through isolation, through burnout, through depression and anxiety,” Ford said. “Our front-line workers are not immune to it. Our young people are not immune to it.” Seven million dollars in funding, given through the province’s Support for People and Jobs Fund, is earmarked to safely expand in-person mental health and addictions services.

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/ontario-mental-health-covid_ca_5f5a900dc5b62874bc1a5438?utm_hp_ref=ca-politics

Indigenous artist to receive recognition for handcrafted masks

Breathe. is a project co-created by Métis artists, Nathalie Bertin and Lisa Shepherd through a Facebook group, inviting various artists to create masks that would reflect emotions felt during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“It started from seeing the posting on the Breathe. page. I saw that post in March, and I decided to make a mask to help me cope through the lockdown. I was thankful seeing that post because it got me beading again as I haven’t beaded since December,” said Boehm on Thursday.

https://winnipegsun.com/news/news-news/indigenous-artist-to-receive-recognition-for-handcrafted-masks

Indigenous Winnipeggers, visible minorities, people with disabilities hit harder by pandemic: city economist

Overall, the unemployment rate in the Winnipeg metropolitan area stood at 11.2 per cent in July, an increase of 5.8 per cent over the same time last year, Markowsky said.

The socio-economic impact of the pandemic has affected Indigenous people, visible minorities and people with disabilities at higher rate than other demographics, he said.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/economist-pandemic-impact-1.5719068

COVID-19 detection may be a flush away as N.W.T. begins testing wastewater

Testing wastewater has been found to uncover trends of COVID-19 in the community four to 10 days earlier than clinical data would, the territory says, by detecting its presence in asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic populations.

While the possible presence of COVID-19 found in the sewage won’t necessarily mean there’s active transmission in the community, it’s possible it will serve as an early warning system for the territory, the release states. It could also help the health and social services system target advice to communities as the pandemic continues.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/covid-19-testing-in-sewage-n-w-t-1.5719123

  • Share:
Kelly.Janz

Previous post

COVID-19 Daily News Digest - September 10, 2020
September 11, 2020

Next post

COVID-19 Daily news Digest - September 12, 2020
September 14, 2020

You may also like

COVID-19 Daily News Digest – February 2, 2021
2 February, 2021

Pauingassi First Nation goes into lockdown after a quarter of members test positive for COVID-19 “It’s safer for them to leave because we have very little resources at our nursing station, and one of them might take a turn for …

COVID-19 Daily News Digest – January 20, 2020
21 January, 2021

Grim’ COVID-19 data highlights inequities on Saskatchewan reserves New data from Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) confirms that fear. As of Monday, there were 13,636 cases confirmed on First Nations reserves across Canada, mostly in the prairies. Reserves in Saskatchewan have …

COVID-19 Daily News Digest – January 19, 2020
19 January, 2021

Covid 19 info in Cree from Thompson general hospital., Learn about COVID-19 in Cree, as Bighetty and Bighetty reports on the virus and current events, from Thompson, MB.  Indigenous Reporters Program helping shape new group of storytellers in Northern Ontario …

Connect

Here are some upcoming virtual events that you can attend online or by phone.

July 7: Climate and Colour

July 2: Anishinaabemowin Wadiswan (Anishinaabe Language Nest)

June 26: 2Spirit Stories: Building Inclusive Intersectional Movements

June 25: A Conversation on Hydro & Indigenous Territories

June 25: Righting Relations Film Screening: Invasion

June 25: Anti-Racism Training Part 2 

June 24: sākihiwē + Wahkohtowin Families workshop: Hand Drum Songs

June 24: Traditional Indigenous approaches to mental health and well-being of health care providers supporting First Nations during the COVID-19 pandemic

June 22: Scaling up - Community Economic Development for a Just Recovery

June 22-29: 7 Days of No Peace

May 30: The Future We Want: Conversation with Young Indigenous Leaders

May 29: Indigenous Laws Conversation in Response to Pandemic

May 28: A Conversation on Indigenous Food Sovereignty

May 28: Indigenous Strategies for a Green Future with Winona LaDuke

May 28: Indigenous Land and Water Protectors Webinar

May 27: Commuting Post-Pandemic: How to Nudge for Sustainable Commutes

May 26: NoWar2020 Conference & Peace Fest

May 21: Protecting Sacred Water: KC Adams and Aimée Craft

May 20: The intersection of mental health and culture during and post COVID-19

May 19: 2020 Rise Webinar Series

May 15: Indigenous Mens/Mxns Gathering

May 14: A Conversation on Land Based Education

May 13: Talanoa: Celebrating Queer Indigenous Resistance

May 12: MEJC Regular Tuesday Meeting

May 11: Speaking up: Conversations About a Better Future - W. Niigan Sinclair

May 7: How to Make A Smudgebowl

May 6: Bush Tea, Podcasting and Indigenous Storytelling

April 29: Lockdown from a First Nations Perspective

April 24: Virtual Ethics Cafe: Equality in a Time of Crisis

April 24: Climate Change and Coronavirus Panel

April 23: Online Community Workshop Alternative Prov. Budget

April 20: Reclaiming Indigenous Paths to Health /Times of Planetary Crisis

April 18: Climate Action During Covid-19

April 14: Indigenous Women on Covid-19 & Fossil Fuel Resistance

April 14: Reconciliation Book Club 4 - Unsettling Canada

April 13 - 17: Isol-action: Spread Justice Not Covid

April 9: Indigenous disaster and emergency management: do past disasters

April 7 - 17: Accessing Deep Indigenous Knowing Webinar

April 6: Building Indigenous Communities of Care during COVID-19

April 2: Online Teach-In: Indigenous Self-Determination and Covid-19

Mar 21: A Covid-19 Fireside Chat with Indigenous Health Professionals
Saved and Accessible here

Mar 18: Webinar on Covid-19 and Indigenous Communities
Saved and Accessible here

Recent Posts

  • Caretaking Mental Health and Wellbeing
  • Post-COVID Horizons: Income-Transfers, Indigenous Poverty and Meaningful Occupations
  • Ka-apachihtaaniwan Creating Togetherness when we are apart
  • Okihtcitawak Patrol Group
  • Virtual Engagement: Relationship building, safe, authentic and culturally appropriate practices

Tags

Advocacy (7) Awareness (2) Ceremony (1) Colonialism (2) Community (11) DigitalHealth (2) Education (3) Environment (3) Food Security (1) Gender (2) Governance (8) HealthSovereignty (5) Health Sovereignty (1) History (4) Housing (2) InternationalPerspective (4) International Perspective (1) Keynote (1) Land (2) MentalHealth (2) Navajo Nation (1) Nunavut (1) Panel (2) PanelCommunity (1) Policy (7) Rankin Inlet (1) Resilience (1) Storytelling (2) TraditionalKnowledge (2) United States (1) Women (1) Youth (2)

Recent Comments

    Education WordPress Theme by ThimPress. Powered by WordPress. ©2020 Wa Ni Ski Tan