Games and snacks help Pond Inlet children through COVID-19 isolation – Nunatsiaq News
Feb 10, 2022
Hamlet’s recreation department handing out the kits, worth about $100 each
The Hamlet of Pond Inlet is giving children who have to isolate due to COVID-19 bags filled with games and snacks to help cure their boredom.
Twenty kits have been distributed so far. Each are worth about $100 and have a door-hanging basketball net, mini hockey sticks, snacks, colouring books, crossword puzzles, supplies for crafts, a board game and more, said the hamlet’s recreation director, Theresa Dalueg.
Pond Inlet — a community in which 60 per cent of the population have received a second dose of a vaccine — has had 19 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 13 recoveries since Jan. 1. Its schools are open at 100 per cent capacity.
