, an Indigenous community about 175 km north of Toronto to create flight routes that would allow drones to fly supplies back and forth from the Nation’s mainland to their main reserve on Christian Island.
The drones would bring in much needed personal protection equipment and other supplies like COVID-19 test kits to Beausoleil residents. “The community is in a remote area where medical resources and services are limited,” said Landon Bibeau, an executive at OEC Group, a distribution company funding the project, “especially during the COVID-19 pandemic where human to human contact is sometimes difficult.Drone Delivery Canada has partnered with the Beausoleil First Nation community in Ontario to deliver COVID-19 related medical supplies.
to deal with the spread of the novel coronavirus. The federal government had initially allotted $305 million COVID-19 for First Nation communities, an amount Indigenous leaders said wouldn’t be enough. By the end of April, 23 Indigenous communities around Canada had reported COVID-19 cases. Around the same time, the federal government announced it was