Posted: May 12, 2021 8:32 AM CT | Last Updated: May 12
Nunavut s Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Michael Patterson said the Nunavut government is working to get the Pfizer vaccine for youth in the territory.(Jackie McKay/CBC News)
The Nunavut government is working to get the Pfizer vaccine to Nunavut, Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Michael Patterson said at a news conference on Wednesday.
There is no timeline yet for when that will happen, but when it does it will be offered to youth aged 12 and up. Nunavut is considering a similar arrangement to the Northwest Territories, which swapped some of its Moderna vaccine doses for Pfizer with British Columbia.
Nunavut s chief public health officer, Dr. Michael Patterson, said staff at the home must isolate for 14 days and he isn t sure when it will reopen. Because of the number of staff in isolation, there weren t enough staff left to provide safe, appropriate care for the next two weeks . there was no other option other than moving them outside of Iqaluit, Patterson said Monday. When we lose not only nurses but other staff to something like this, in most communities in Nunavut there s not a large pool to draw from on short notice.
He said while all residents at the elders home are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, not all staff got the vaccine.
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Specimens to be tested for COVID-19 are seen at LifeLabs after being logged upon receipt at the company s lab, in Surrey, B.C., on Thursday, March 26, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck May 10, 2021 - 12:37 PM
IQALUIT, Nunavut - An elders home in Iqaluit, Nunavut was evacuated on the weekend after a staff member tested positive for COVID-19, with some residents being sent out of the territory.
Four of the home s six residents were flown to a seniors living residence in Ottawa, while two others were transferred elsewhere in the territory.
Nunavut s chief public health officer, Dr. Michael Patterson, said staff at the home must isolate for 14 days and he isn t sure when it will reopen.
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This 2020 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows SARS-CoV-2 virus particles which cause COVID-19. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Hannah A. Bullock, Azaibi Tamin/CDC via AP May 04, 2021 - 1:06 PM
IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut s chief public health officer says COVID-19 cases are climbing in Iqaluit s younger population and a local hotel is being used as an isolation centre after a shelter closed in the city.
Over the weekend, Iqaluit s only low barrier shelter, where people can stay if they re intoxicated, was shut down after all of its staff went into isolation for COVID-19 â with one staff member testing positive.