Individual flew Jan. 30 on Canadian North flight 5T164
Nunavik health officials announced a new case of COVID-19 Jan. 31 in Kuujjuaq. The individual arrived in the community Jan. 30 on a flight from the south, according to a news release from the Nunavik Regional Board of Health and Social Services.
Lavinia Flaherty of Kuujjuaq takes her two huskies, Chubby and Hunter, for a walk and snuggle Jan 26. (Photo by Malaya Qaunirq Chapman)
Water vapour rises off the Koksoak River in Kuujjuaq at sunrise around 8 a.m. on Jan. 22. “The water, which has not yet frozen, and the smoke are reflected like a river of lava surrounding the icebergs,” writes photographer Maxence Chavanne. (Photo by Maxence Chavanne)
A boat sits on the banks of the Koksoak River near Kuujjuaq Jan. 18. “Super late into the season, and still, the Kuujjuaq River isn’t frozen,” writes Malaya Qaunirq Chapman. (Photo by Malaya Qaunirq Chapman)
James Novalinga, 70, was the first resident of Puvirnituq to receive the COVID-19 vaccine Jan. 21, administered by nurse Vanessa Asfar at the Inuulitsivik health centre. Last week, Nunavik communities received a portion of the 1,000 shots of Moderna’s vaccine shipped to the region. As of Jan. 25, the Nunavik Regional Board of Health and Social Services says 568 people have been immunized. Roughly 85 per cent of those have gone to residents aged 55 and up, while the rest have been given to frontline workers and health-care staff. (Photo courtesy of NRBHSS)
“I feel like Inuit have been left behind,” says former CEO of Air Inuit
“I think it’s really something to be proud of,” says Makivik VP Maggie Emudluk
“I’m in the perfect place to do this,” says former senator seeking re-election as president of region’s Inuit birthright organization
Health board asks people to continue to avoid non-essential travel
“I think I’m ready. I want to change things,” says former councillor looking to lead Nunavik’s Inuit birthright organization
Infected person flew Montreal to Puvirnituq and back on Jan. 18
Nunavut Eastern Arctic Shipping moves from Valleyfield, Que. to Port of Bécancour
Centre has administered 200 screening tests and put all residents in isolation
“There was never any doubt in my mind that I would get the vaccination”
Johnny Watt, a resident of Tusajiapik Elders’ Home in Kuujjuaq, was the first person in Nunavik to be vaccinated against COVID-19 on Sunday, Jan. 17. Watt has a history with vaccines: he helped deliver the measles vaccines to camps by dogsled team in the early 1950s. Nunavik received its first batch of 1,000 doses of Moderna’s vaccine this past weekend. Immunization will begin in the region’s other communities this week. (Photo courtesy of the NRBHSS)
Cases confirmed in Whapmagoostui, adjacent to Kuujjuaraapik, as well as in Kuujjuaq
A waxing crescent moon hangs in the sky above the Koksoak River near Kuujjuaq, as seen from the Range neighbourhood on the afternoon of Jan. 16. “Further out in the middle of the river, there’s still a huge strong river flowing,” writes Malaya Qaunirq Chapman. “This warm weather is wild for January.” (Photo by Malaya Qaunirq Chapman)
Those with priority to get the vaccine will get a call from their local nursing station, according to the regional health board
Caribou, part of a herd of several hundred, are seen passing about two kilometres from Inukjuak on Wednesday, Jan. 13. (Photo by Sylvain Paradis)
Kuujjuaq residents gather to cheer on snowmobile racers during an event organized by the community’s youth committee Jan. 10. (Photo by Malaya Qaunirq Chapman)
Five new out-of-region cases confirmed Jan. 13
Region plans to immunize 13,000 residents by mid-March, public health director says
Jesse Mesher competes in snowmobile races held by the Kuujjuaq Sivulirtisait Youth Committee Jan. 10. She ended up placing third among six racers. (Photo by Malaya Qaunirq Chapman)
“I believe that this is a step in the right direction”
Jeanie May competes in snowmobile races held by the Kuujjuaq Sivulirtisait Youth Committee Jan. 10. May won both her division categories, in time trials and in a race against five other women. The races are held each year around a course at Stewart Lake. (Photo by Malaya Qaunirq Chapman)
