While COVID-19 restrictions eased in Iqaluit on Thursday, the Nunavut health department said it will continue to carry out surveillance testing in the capital.
Posted: May 08, 2021 8:20 PM CT | Last Updated: May 9
The Iqaluit Elders Home, seen here directly to the left of the North Mart store, is being closed after a staff exposure to COVID-19, says Nunavut s health department.(Google Maps)
The Iqaluit Elders Home is being closed and elders are being moved out of the facility, after staff members were exposed to COVID-19 and ordered to isolate, according to Nunavut s Department of Health.
Department spokesperson Chris Puglia did not say where the exposure had taken place in an email to CBC News on Saturday night.
Six clients have been transferred to other facilities, four are being transferred to Embassy West Senior Living retirement home in Ottawa because of more advanced needs, while the rest are being cared for elsewhere in the territory, he said.
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Justin Li, who currently serves as director of the
National Capital Confucius Institute for Culture, Language and Business at
Carleton University, as well as the director emeritus of the University of Alberta’s China Institute. (6:30 – 8:30 PM)
Also on the witness list for the evening session: Two former top-level security officials one-time
national security adviser Richard Fadden and
Ward Elcock, who headed up the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS).
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