Nunavik workplaces, restaurants can now fully reopen

Private and public workplaces in Nunavik can now reopen throughout the region.

The Kativik Regional Government has announced that the region’s next stage of reopening comes into place on Monday, June 15. That includes restaurants reopening for sit-in dining and also lifts any remaining restrictions on workplaces, such as government or landholding offices.

All workplaces must follow the Quebec government’s public health directives, outlined here, for different workplace environments.

Those directives continue to require offices and businesses to maintain, whenever possible, a physical distance of at least two metres among staff and clients. In certain scenarios, workspaces should also have physical barriers between workstations.

Generally speaking, employees and clients should continue to wash their hands frequently, cover their faces when coughing or sneezing, and avoid giving hugs or handshakes, the directives say.

Daycare centres across Nunavik are also set to reopen on June 15, three months after they closed.

Nunavik counted a total of 16 infections throughout the region in March and April, but has had no COVID-19 cases since May 5.

That’s prompted Nunavik’s Regional Emergency Advisory Committee to begin to relax certain measures, starting with the reopening of intercommunity travel on May 29.

Air Inuit plans to re-launch commercial flights in the region later this week, on Thursday, June 18, with its reservation system reopening on Tuesday, June 16.