The Blood reserve has confirmed its first case of COVID-19, but officials were prepared for the announcement on Wednesday. “Blood tribe has been at zero cases since the start of the pandemic,” department of health representative Martin Heavy Head said Thursday. “We’ve had a pandemic plan with our public health service since 2006 because of the H1N1 pandemic.” They believe they have traced the case back to a workplace, which AHS is carefully monitoring. “And AHS is doing all the contact tracking.” While everyone on the reserve is following AHS guidelines, officials have further restricted gatherings to five people or fewer, and say all medical front-line workers are prepared with proper protocol and protection. “We’ve been operating under