Six Nations adapts its own COVID-19 colour-coded system, places itself in Level 2

Six Nations of the Grand River's emergency control group has made its own version of Ontario's COVID-19 colour-coded framework that determines the risk of regions in the province — except the Six Nations iteration has stricter measures.

The elected council approved the system for immediate use as one part of the community's overall recovery plan.

The change was made to "meet the unique needs of the Six Nations territory," the First Nation said in a media release.

The new framework also includes numbers, in addition to colours, ranging from green level one, the lowest risk level of transmission, to black level five, the the highest risk level of transmitting the virus.

Six Nations placed itself at yellow level two, which indicates a "moderate risk" of spreading COVID-19.

"Six Nations will use our own specific indicators to assess the severity of the situation within our own community. Therefore, Six Nations colour status may not be the same as surrounding communities such as Brant, Haldimand-Norfolk or Hamilton," reads a release. 

"However, the colour status in the surrounding area does impact us and will be factored into our alert level status. This is because we rely on many services in the surrounding area such as grocery stores and hospitals."

Each week, part of the emergency control group will do a risk assessment of the community. It will use those results to decide if the community should have restrictions added or eased.

The most recent update from Six Nations showed one active case as of Nov. 28, while 97 were resolved.

One person who had the virus has died.