Blood Tribe -- Lethbridge News Now

By Connor Gunn

COVID-19 Vaccines arrive on Blood Reserve

Jan 2, 2021 | 5:45 PM

LETHBRIDGE, AB– Kainai Continuing Care Staff and Residents have received their first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Alberta Health Services began to administer the first COVID-19 vaccinations on December 24^th to Kainai Continuing Care Centre staff and followed by the facility’s residents on January 1, 2021.

30 staff members and 18 residents of the Kainai Continuing Care Centre received the first of two doses of the COVID-19 vaccines.

Facilities on first nation reserves are among the top of the priority list for receiving vaccines first.

AHS notified that the Pfizer vaccine was administered to Kainai Continuing Care Center staff with the Moderna vaccine given to KCCC residents. Both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are administered in two doses.

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Priorities of those receiving the vaccines are based on the immediate priorities outlined by the province, advocacy by Blackfoot leadership and Blood Tribe physicians to have First Nations included is noted as being instrumental for the immediate vaccinations on reserves.