Canadian Armed Forces arrive to assist Bearskin Lake First Nation with COVID-19 outbreak
CBC
Members of the Canadian Armed Forces had arrived in Bearskin Lake, a First Nation in northern Ontario gripped by an outbreak of COVID-19 that has seen more than half the population infected.
Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair said Saturday that soldiers are conducting an initial assessment.
More than half of the roughly 400 people living in the remote First Nation 600 kilometres north of Thunder Bay, Ont., have tested positive for COVID-19. Even more are in quarantine.
It's left the community with a dwindling number of people to perform essential tasks such as delivering wood, food and medicine to those in isolation.
"We need external personnel to come in and help us. We need human resources," Charles Fox, a member of Bearskin Lake and a former Ontario regional chief, previously told CBC News.
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