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Feds need plan to vaccinate urban Indigenous people, friendship centres say
Indigenous people who live in urban areas are left unsure how they will be vaccinated against COVID-19, an organization that serves them is calling on Ottawa to allocate vaccine shots for them.The federal government insists provincial governments are responsible for those vaccinations, but the head of the National Association of Friendship Centres says Ottawa should have a cohesive COVID-19 vaccine rollout plan for Indigenous people, including in urban areas.Executive director Jocelyn Formsma said the federal government is coordinating with First Nations and Inuit governments to immunize those on reserves, but there is no national vaccination plan for Indigenous people living outside those communities.“It’s not surprising that the process