Community groups filling gaps in translation of COVID-19 information

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Across Canada, community organizations, advocates, researchers and health workers are filling gaps in information about COVID-19 in languages other than English.

Manzano-Leal is volunteering as member of the Alberta International Medical Graduates Association while she's on maternity leave from her job as the director of care at a supported living facility in Calgary.

"They can feel it. When they go outside and they know their friends are going to the same grocery stores, they can feel how distance themselves," she said. "It's left up to community folks and ethno-cultural groups and language group media to do that work, but that doesn't encompass everybody, and if the government can play a stronger role in translating that also ensures a level of credibility of information."

Another group of doctors and researchers in Toronto is responding to the psychological effects of the pandemic on Chinese-Canadians and other racial groups, while promoting community health. For example, Li said, Asian Canadians were early users of face masks to help prevent transmission of the novel coronavirus, and the initial advice from Canadian public health officials that masks are ineffective reinforced stigmas.

 

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