Nunavut’s active COVID-19 case count falls to 362
Current wave has spurred 1 death and 22 hospitalizations
Nunavut saw a drop in COVID-19 cases Thursday, according to Premier P.J. Akeeagok. (Image by PIR04D from Pixabay)
There are 362 COVID-19 active cases in Nunavut, down 35 cases from Wednesday, according to Premier P.J. Akeeagok.
Akeeagok released the latest numbers on Twitter.
The communities with the most cases are Iqaluit with 109, Rankin Inlet with 49, Igloolik with 38 and Taloyoak with 23.
Since Wednesday, Arctic Bay’s one case has recovered, and there have been 1,305 recoveries throughout the current wave.
The territory’s case count is down more than 100 since Monday’s tally of 477.
Here is a breakdown of Nunavut’s case count by community:
- Arviat — 17
- Baker Lake — 11
- Cambridge Bay — 14
- Coral Harbour — 11
- Gjoa Haven — 4
- Igloolik — 38
- Iqaluit — 109
- Kinngait — 11
- Kugaaruk — 18
- Kugluktuk — 1
- Naujaat — 4
- Pangnirtung — 11
- Qikiqtarjuaq — 2
- Rankin Inlet — 49
- Resolute Bay — 9
- Sanikiluaq — 13
- Sanirajak — 15
- Taloyoak — 23
On Tuesday, Nunavut’s chief public health officer, Dr. Michael Patterson, said that public health restrictions in 15 communities will ease beginning Feb. 21.
Please stop with the case count when we know it’s not relative of the actual case count.
If you have factual information, why don’t you publish it, with your source, along with your real name, so the reader can determine your credibility?
Otherwise, I am clearly going to accept the facts from the expert source identified in the article.
The factual information is the information that the government has already given us. They are not testing people in households that already have a confirmed case. So if it says 11 cases, it could be like 50 cases.
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I actually think you should start posting anonymously, because your name carries no credibility.
Exactly.
The extraordinary claim is that the official numbers represent the true prevalence and that there is no transmission or infection that is not promptly recorded by the authorities. That is obviously absurd and anyone who holds that view either doesn’t understand Omicron or thinks there are no constraints to our contact tracing capacity.
As you point out, this has been explained by the CPHO and covered in the media (wasn’t there a story about Cambridge Bay and possibly other communities publishing different numbers that counted household members with symptoms but for whom no molecular test was done?).
The one comment that I would make is that Nunatsiaq, and possibly the GN, should provide this context (I grant that examples of this kind of reporting, such as the CBC provides in the south, make things much more complex and uncertain).
I agree. Just end the counts. What’s actually being done with these fake numbers anyway? Oh, I know. Keeping restaurants closed so staff who aren’t working from home can’t even have a reprieve.
Pond has cases now for a few days…
I for one want to keep informed with the number, it makes people realize how serious the virus is. If it bothers you just stop reading as reading the new is not forced on to you.
I think that people should realize how prevalent the virus is, but I think that these counts actually make people underestimate it, as we know from the government’s previous communication that the real counts are likely significantly higher.
Other responsible governments have used requisites for vaccinations to obtaining services which have push the hesitant ones to get vaccinated. Those places are now opening restaurants with proof of vaccination. Lowly little local governments in Nunavut are the only ones with the guts to require them. The absolute non-existent leadership of the None of it Government is telling as they have done nothing! All they ever do is the laziest way to govern to simply extend the emergency crap which has done nothing to increase vaccinations nor reduce to rates of Covid. It is truly a depressing time to live here, we had hoped with new leadership we would get action and it is actually worse then before.
More than 1600 cases of COVID in the current wave.
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The GN seems to be following the federal lead in not talking about Long COVID .
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We are left with research conducted by the CBC which indicates that about 1 in 3 Canadians who get COVID-19 go on to develop Long COVID, and that there are only 5 clinics in Canada dealing with Long COVID.
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That means more than 500 Nunavummiut have or will have Long COVID, requiring extensive, long-term medical care and, in many cases, making them disabled for a long time (it’s too soon to know how long Long COVID symptoms will persist). That’s 500 more long term patients for Nunavut’s badly strained health care system to care for.
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It appears Nunavut (and the rest of the world) needs a huge increase in people working in all areas of healthcare.
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Time for NAC to exand its enrolement, because Nunavut will be competing with the rest of the world for health care professionals.