Some Nunavut hamlets producing own COVID-19 counts amid testing backlogs – Nunatsiaq News
Jan 13, 2022
Cambridge Bay’s mayor’s numbers include presumptive cases, while GN only reports confirmed infections
While the Government of Nunavut’s COVID-19 case count no longer provides an accurate picture of its spread in the territory, some municipal leaders are taking reporting numbers into their own hands.
Cambridge Bay’s mayor, Angulalik Pedersen, announced Facebook there were 36 active cases in the community as of Wednesday afternoon.
The GN’s official count of confirmed cases for the community was at 10 on Thursday, but that number only counts cases confirmed by PCR test.
The hamlet’s higher count includes confirmed cases, presumptive cases and symptomatic individuals living with someone confirmed to have the virus, Pedersen said on the official Municipality of Cambridge Bay Facebook page.
