Hutterian Safety Council (HSC) penned a letter to the Saskatchewan Government asking for colonies to no longer be identified when reporting active coronavirus cases.“Our primary concern is that the Ministry of Health is attaching cultural and religious attributes to COVID-19 cases.
This occurs when reporting includes a reference to Hutterite communities or the more recent thinly veiled euphemism, ‘communal living setting’,” the letter said.On Monday, the province disclosed that the majority of its 31 new COVID-19 cases came from Hutterite colonies.“To me, it says: ‘Dear people of Saskatchewan, we have a Hutterite problem, we don’t have a COVID problem’,” HSC chair David Tschetter said.