Nunavut counts 295 cases of COVID-19
Infections confirmed for about 3% of Sanikiluaq residents
There were a total of 295 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Nunavut on Wednesday. (Graphic by Mélanie Ritchot)
Nunavut reported 295 cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday.
Igloolik had 32 cases, while Sanikiluaq reported a tally of 33.
Igloolik is under Nunavut’s strictest public health measures, including a travel restriction and closed schools. Schools in Sanikiluaq are reduced to half capacity because of the COVID-19 situation in the community.
At a news conference on Tuesday, Dr. Michael Patterson said the strict restrictions were put in place for Igloolik because of how quickly cases rose over the weekend, how many calls were coming into the hotline from the hamlet, and the amount of tests backed up at the health centre.
Baker Lake and Iqaluit have slightly higher case counts than the two communities, but have higher populations.
Active case breakdown:
- Arviat — 24
- Baker Lake — 39
- Cambridge Bay — 35
- Chesterfield Inlet — 1
- Coral Harbour — 15
- Igloolik — 32
- Iqaluit — 45
- Kimmirut — 1
- Kinngait — 13
- Kugluktuk — 3
- Naujaat — 11
- Pond Inlet — 5
- Qikiqtarjuaq — 1
- Rankin Inlet — 19
- Sanikiluaq — 33
- Sanirajak — 6
- Taloyoak — 6
- Whale Cove — 6
Cambridge Bay’s case count went from 24 to 35 on Wednesday.
The single, previously presumed, case of COVID-19 in Kugluktuk appears to have been confirmed, with three cases now reported in the community.
In total, one death and 518 recoveries have been reported during the current wave of outbreaks, but recoveries are now only reported on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Patterson and Premier P.J. Akeeagok will hold an update on the COVID-19 situation in Nunavut on Thursday at 11 a.m., which can be streamed on the legislative assembly’s website.
in the house we were in quarantine because we had travelled recently.
people kept showing up to our home to visit but we tell them we are in quarantine. they did not care and kept visiting us. are we supposed to call the police? are we supposed to call the nursing station?
Why not just ask them to leave yourself? I think its called being and adult.
You’re supposed to have the skill to turn people away.
You can leave all of your power at the hands of the government but that creates dependency would you not prefer to take control of your own life. Why demand the government care for you then complain about government not doing what you want? The person responsible for your safety is looking back at you in the mirror.
Graph shows a scary upward tick, why are you using 300 as the base point?
Nunavut’s population is over 35,000. 295 known covid cases, lets divide that to get a percentage of known cases against the backdrop of the population. its .0084 percent of the population of Nunavut with know cases of Covid.
Enough with the fear mongering!
Nunavut has a population of over 39,000 as per the last census in 2000.
I’d say the “baseline” as you call it is simply a visual aid to show readers how confirmed Covid cases have changed in the period identified.
Now, move on to mathematical skills:
– Let’s round up (or down) the population to 39,000
– Nunavut currently has (had as of yesterday) 295
– Calculation: 295 / 39000 = 0.00756 (now we have to change the decimal to percentage)
– Calculation: 0.00756 * 100 = 0.756%
This maybe doesn’t seem significant to you, but the issue are our communities, with the overcrowded housing, no functional health centers, low vaccination rates in some places and of course possible delays in Medivac, if needed.
I agree that we have to move forward, slowly but surely, but it yet has to be determined what the best way for Nunavut will be.
295/35,000 = 0.0084 = 0.84% which is not equal to 0.0084 percent.
This is exactly the type of person I would expect to be talking about fear-mongering, somebody that absolutely has no idea what they’re talking about.
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300 is not being used as a “base point”. 300 is the upper limit of the “range” of the y-axis of the graph, 0 is the lower limit. Considering the highest point on the graph is 297, a range of 0 to 300 is the obvious and a very good range for a graph intended to show the numerical count of covid cases.
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Secondly, as has already been pointed out, you don’t even understand how to convert numbers into a percentage.
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Do you really think you’re even qualified to offer an opinion?
When I was a young boy, my mother had contracted TB, I had to take pills for the whole year, I think getting vaccinated is a piece of cake.
So here we are 2 cases shy of our outbreak high and open, after we lost count because of that trump style idea to stop testing and opening up because of “lowered case numbers”. Has the GN just rolled over and given up on keeping its high population of vulnerable people safe?