Top doctors answer your questions about COVID-19 on CBC's The Trailbreaker
N.W.T. residents asked Dr. Kami Kandola and Dr. AnneMarie Pegg about vaccines, masks, travel and more
The N.W.T.'s Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Kami Kandola and territorial medical director Dr. AnneMarie Pegg took listeners' questions about COVID-19 live Thursday morning on CBC's The Trailbreaker.
Since the last Trailbreaker call-in radio show, the community of Fort Liard, N.W.T, had an outbreak of COVID-19 cases, and a 14-day containment order went into effect on Jan. 16. The hamlet has a population of about 500 residents and is 780 kilometres southwest of Yellowknife.
Yellowknife also reported on Jan. 15 having one case of COVID-19 with no known source — the first time territory officials could not trace a case back to another case.
As of Wednesday, the territory had three active COVID-19 cases with a total of 31 confirmed cases and 28 listed as recovered.
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Territory-wide vaccination clinics for priority populations are well underway. The first vaccine was administered on New Year's Eve.
Last week, inmates at the North Slave Correctional Complex in Yellowknife and the Fort Smith Correctional Complex wanting the COVID-19 vaccine were able to receive it on Jan. 20.