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[JordanN]

Update: IT's fake news. Nunavut still remains the last virus free place on earth.

I know there's an existing pandemic thread but this one is unique.

Nunavut (pictured in red above) was actually the last place in Canada, and perhaps the entire world, to have been confirmed Coronavirus free.

This record was unfortunately broken today but at least the territory had more than enough time to prepare.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/nunavut-first-covid19-case-1.5509014

Nunavut has reported its first case of COVID-19 in the community of Pond Inlet, according to Nunavut's Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Michael Patterson.

The territory was the last provincial and territorial jurisdiction remaining in Canada to have zero cases until Thursday.

The individual is in isolation and doing well, according to the territorial government in a news release sent Thursday morning.

"We did anticipate that it was only a matter of time before our territory had a confirmed case, and unfortunately today is that day," said Patterson in the news release.

"We don't know yet the full details of how this individual got COVID-19," Patterson added at a morning press conference.

He said health officials in Pond Inlet have begun contact tracing, which is a process of mapping who the individual could have interacted with and how they may have contracted the virus.

Pond Inlet is a community of just over 1,600 people on the northeastern coast of Baffin Island.

I created this thread because it will be interesting to watch in real time how did the virus actually get there, especially when the territory had the strictest travel regulation enacted March 23rd, 2020.

 

[cryptoadam]

Probably because they didn't close the beaches.

 

[PrimetimeKnight]

Just waiting for the panic headline, "10% of Canadian province tests positive for COVID-19". Since probably 10 people live there.

 

[SirKicksalot]

MR. HICKEY, RELEASE ME FROM THIS QUARANTINE AT ONCE!

 

[JordanN]

Update: It was fake news. Nunavut is still virus free.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/covid-19-nunavut-1.5554545

Nunavut chads stay winning. Inuits are going to inherit the earth.

 

[cryptoadam]

All you American's stay away from our COVID free zone up here in Canada. Its OURS !