Health officials are warning of at least one undetected case of COVID-19 in Yellowknife. In a press release issued Monday evening, Dr. Kami Kandola, the NWT chief public health officer (CPHO), says wastewater testing from April 14 to 17 detected a positive case of the virus. The release says there…
Steven Ronald Theriault will be spending the next four years and three months in prison for a fatal collision that took the life of a 21-year-old mother. He was sentenced to six and a half years for the incident, but had approximately 15 months removed from his sentence for time…
Dr. Kami Kandola, chief public health officer, says an update on the easing of restrictions in the NWT may come as early as next week to be implemented by the end of April. “If we are looking to move to phase three, we would start looking towards the end of…
The reported presumptive COVID-19 case at the Ekati Mine came back negative, according to the CBC. A spokesperson for the Arctic Canadian Diamond Company said in a previous email that testing of outbound employees on April 6 found a single presumptive case. The spokesperson has not confirmed with CKLB that…
The much talked about 75 per cent vaccination target for herd immunity against the COVID-19 virus may be changing. During oral questions in the Legislative Assembly yesterday Julie Green, minister of Health and Social Services, faced questions from three MLAs about how the government will be easing health restrictions in…
All adults residing in Yellowknife are now eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine. This was announced by Julie Green, minister of Health and Social Services, during a press conference at the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday. “With today’s announcement for the general population in Yellowknife, we have moved from scarcity of the…
Premier Caroline Cochrane says it does not look like there will be a travel bubble with the Yukon anytime soon. Inuvik Twin Lakes MLA Lesa Semmler pressed both Cochrane and Julie Green, Health and Social Services minister, on the possibility of getting exemptions from isolation when crossing the Yukon border…
Residents of Chateh are under a mandatory two-week lockdown as of 9 a.m. today, according to Dene Tha’ First Nation. The first nation posted an advisory on social media, which outlines the rules during lockdown. Full household lockdown, no one leaves their home Nobody in or out of the community,…
Gahcho Kué mine is gearing up to resume operations this weekend. De Beers, in a press release, has said it changed its entire workforce “to break any possible chain of COVID-19 transmission.” The new operational team is scheduled to fly into the site on Feb. 27 and begin the next…
Since the outbreak at Gahcho Kué mine was announced in early February, three workers are now in hospital with COVID-19. One of the workers was medevaced to Edmonton on Wednesday. “These hospitalizations are a stark reminder that we must take this pandemic seriously,” says Dr. Kami Kandola, chief public health…