Posted: Feb 26, 2021 6:00 AM CT | Last Updated: February 26
Nunakput MLA Jackie Jacobson asked the government weeks ago to send grief counsellors to the communities in his electoral district to help people deal with all the deaths that have occurred over the last year. (Sara Minogue/CBC)
Weeks after Nunakput MLA Jackie Jacobson requested the government send grief counsellors to his electoral district, Health Minister Julie Green says she will look into sending a mental health team to the district s four communities.
In early February, Green urged anyone seeking mental health services to use same-day counselling services available through the health department but stopped short of committing to send in new resources.
The N.W.T.'s chief public health officer said she expects the territory to have full herd immunity meaning, 75 per cent of the eligible adult population having received two doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine by the end of April.
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The territory's teachers union had been asking for the measure, which allows teachers to be vaccinated along side other front-line workers ahead of the general public.