Health Minister Julie Green said last week the public health emergency could end as soon as "this spring." Tourism operators like James McPherson say the lack of details and a timeline are costing them business.
While the rest of the territory’s students went back to school January 24, Fort Smith and Inuvik were delayed until at least Jan 28 to give the communities a chance to reduce the momentum of the current outbreak.
There was confusion in Inuvik on Monday when no COVID-19 case was announced in the daily update from the Office of the Chief Public Health Officer (OCPHO). Aurora College had begun to inform students of a COVID-19 exposure on Saturday.
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