Indigenous communities in Manitoba have been disproportionately hurt by the pandemic. The numbers are shocking, but they haven't come as a surprise to either Indigenous leaders or public health officials, who warned from the outset that the pandemic could have a "devastating" impact on Indigenous communities . By the beginning of the 1600s, barely a century later, 90 per cent of this Indigenous population had died. St John's Morning Show 8:27 Apocalypse Then The COVID-19 pandemic has hit Indigenous communities across North America harder than the population at large. Due to colonization, many Indigenous communities are still faced with food scarcity, overcrowded housing, dirty water and substandard health care.

Source: CBC News April 25, 2021 08:26 UTC