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tametsi-qq:thestarfishdancer:thestarfishdancer:tametsi-qq:hrefnatheravenqueen:allthecanadianpolitics:Nunavut now has 18 cases of Covid19 after getting its first case a week ago.Nunavut is Canada’s largest sub-region with a sparse population of mostly Indigenous people (~85% Inuit).Its only Hospital is in Iqaluit which is 1300 km away from the majority of the cases (Arviat in the south of the territory):Tagging: @politicsofcanada*please don’t be a repeat of the Spanish Flu in Inuit communities*There’s actually 26 cases of COVID-19 as of today (Monday, Nov 16, 2020). 6 of the cases are from Arviat, and 2 are from Rankin Inlet. Masks are reccommended across Nunavut, but are only manditory in Sanikiluaq and the Kivalliq region. A two week territorial lockdown is starting on Wednesday (Nov 18th, 2020).The Northwest Territories (where I live) has now just closed its “bubble” with Nunavut. We’re also one of the medical “hubs”, so I’m not sure what that’s going to mean for people from the Kitikmeot who need to come here for medical reasons. (I live next to a Larga house, where those traveling are housed while here, for example women in their last month of pregnancy.) It must be very scary and isolating already, to travel away from your community when you need a doctor, and I don’t know what restrictions they will face while here or how exemptions will work when it comes to isolation. I hope there is no more community spread. Stay safe, Nunavummiut! 34 new cases, totalling them to about 60 now. This is devastating. Please keep Nunavummiut in your thoughts.https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/covid-19-new-cases-whale-cove-1.5805272From my understanding (from a quick read of a Nunatsiaq News article)- people can still travel to the NWT from Nunavut, especially for medical. The end of the travel bubble just means that you have to isolate for 14 days after travelling from Nunavut to NWT, whereas prior to this, you could travel between the two territories without isolating. I think for medical they’ll treat it like they treat medical patients in Ottawa- they’re kept in the isolation hub and are taken directly to and from appointments to keep potential contact low.However- it’s unclear if the isolation hub system will continue, because Arviat’s first case was from someone who had gone through the 14 day isolation at the Winnipeg isolation hub, arrived in the community, went a week without symptoms, and then became so sick that they were medivaced out of the community. It’s continued to spread in Arviat in a way it hasn’t (so far) in Rankin, Whale Cove or Sanikiluaq. (Which I just realized is missing from the map above- Sanikiluaq is located closer to the Northern area of Quebec, an island in the Hudson bay. It’s part of the Qikiqtaaluk region) -- source link
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