It wouldn't be the Netherlands if the new year didn't start with some riotting
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/thousands-gather-in-amsterdam-despite-demonstration-ban-1.5725600
Thousands of people in the capital of the Netherlands defied a ban and gathered Sunday for a demonstration against the Dutch government's coronavirus lockdown measures before police pushed the crowd off an Amsterdam square.
Here First Nations are in crisis
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/covid-19-outbreak-in-fly-in-ontario-first-nation-an-extreme-crisis-grand-chief-1.5725297
An organization representing dozens of Ontario First Nations is asking the federal and provincial governments for help after a rapid rise in COVID-19 cases in one of its fly-in communities that has affected roughly one-third of the local population.
The Nishnawbe Aski Nation said many communities are losing their ability to care for members and have exhausted what limited resources they had, including drinking water and food deliveries for those in isolation, wood and fuel for heat, and measures that could alleviate overcrowding and housing shortages.
Fox said many of its member First Nations don't have a doctor on-call and instead, are using nursing stations to treat patients.
"We are extremely unique because we don't have that health-care system to support should someone get extremely sick," he said.
"Our concern is that currently with this crisis, there's just been no response. And there are pandemic plans within our communities, and our First Nations leaders are executing those plans well, but at this point, this is an extreme crisis," he said.
