In the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak in B.C., many news releases were only available in English, while translated materials are often buried on government and health authority websites
VANCOUVER — When Mary Rose Manzano-Leal called Filipino employees of a coronavirus-stricken meat-packing plant in Alberta last month, the physician says they expressed relief as soon she began speaking their language.
Alberta Health Services asked the organization, whose members speak about different 80 languages, to help support workers at the Cargill meat-packing plant, the centre of Canada’s largest outbreak of COVID-19. The next sessions look at how to stay safe as businesses reopen, while a partner organization, ActionDignity, has offered sessions on various financial supports.
The coalition has received enough funding from the federal government to continue its work until the end of July, said Huang. There is plenty of information about COVID-19 available to Chinese-language speakers, he said, but few of them specifically address the epidemic in Canada.
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