No visiting as all Nunavik communities move to ‘red alert’ COVID-19 level Wednesday – CBC
‘It is just a matter of time until Omicron will spread in all [14] communities’
Jan 18, 2022
All 14 communities in Nunavik will be at the highest COVID-19 alert level — red — beginning Jan. 19.
The Nunavik Regional Board of Health and Social Services said in a Facebook post there is community transmission in more than half of the region’s communities and that the entire region is at risk.
“It is just a matter of time until Omicron will spread in all communities,” it stated.
As of Jan. 14, eight of the communities in the northern Quebec region were already at the red alert level while the other six were at the second highest level, orange plus.
The six communities moving to the red alert level are Kuujjuaraapik, Umiujaq, Inukjuaq, Aklulivik, Quaqtaq and Aupaluk.
There are about 12,000 residents in Nunavik, almost 90 per cent of whom are Inuit.
The board also stated it’s adapting the measures in the red alert level to the Omicron variant, so that it can “minimize as much as possible important outbreaks that could overload the health care system, while maintaining basic and essential services in communities.”
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/nunavik-covid-red-alert-jan-18-1.6319639
