Volunteers brave freezing weather, long travel to get supplies to First Nation in Ontario besieged by COVID-19

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In the week since the first cases of COVID-19 were detected in Bearskin Lake First Nation, the community in Ontario has been forced to rapidly shut down.

More than half of the about 400 people living in the remote northern community — including most essential workers and First Nation leadership — are now in quarantine, either as a confirmed case or because they live with someone who has tested positive for the virus.

But the First Nation isn’t alone, with surrounding communities doing everything they can to help out.

As of Tuesday morning, 187 people in Bearskin Lake, more than 600 kilometres north of Thunder Bay, have

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