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Security guard tests positive for COVID-19 at a hotel in Canada’s capital city

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, August 27, 2020 at 10:06
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A security guard working at an isolation hub for Nunavummiut in Ottawa has tested positive for COVID-19. The Nunavut Department

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COVID-19 could hit Nunavut harder than elsewhere, says Canadian territory’s top doctor

Jackie McKay, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 at 11:54
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Nunavut’s top doctor says it’s only a matter of time before the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, reaches the territory. Dr.

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Russia Society Society (Russia) 

Coronavirus: Russia hints it might close its border with Norway, Finland

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 at 10:54 — Last Updated: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 at 10:58
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Cases of coronavirus have been revealed at our neighbors, governor of the north Russian region explains. “I beg all inhabitants

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Arctic Winter Games ‘in good shape’ with COVID-19 precautions

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, March 3, 2020 at 10:56
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Officials with the Arctic Winter Games (AWG) say the risk is low, but they’re taking all necessary precautions to avoid

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Norway Society Society (Norway) 

First case of coronavirus tested in Arctic Norway

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, February 27, 2020 at 09:34
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A woman from the north Norwegian town of Tromsø has tested positive for the coronavirus. The woman was tested after

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Finland Society Society (Finland) 

Officials track down most of those exposed to coronavirus in Arctic Finland

Yle News
Posted: Monday, February 3, 2020 at 15:10
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On Sunday Lapland health officials said they had contacted three more travellers—already back in Singapore and France—suspected to have been

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Finland Science Society (Finland) 

Concern over coronavirus outbreak impacts tourism in northern Europe and Arctic Russia

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, January 31, 2020 at 10:36
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First coronavirus case in northern Finland triggers big headlines. In Murmansk, incoming tourists are expected to be down 80 percent

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Finland Society Society (Finland) 

Finland’s first coronavirus case confirmed in Lapland

Yle News
Posted: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 at 16:12
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A Chinese tourist who was admitted to hospital for tests after showing symptoms was confirmed to have the deadly new strain of

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Chinese tourists cancel trips to Canada’s Northwest Territories amid coronavirus outbreak

Hilary Bird, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 at 10:11
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Tour operators and hotels in Yellowknife are being hit with a number of cancellations from Chinese tourists in the wake

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Canada Society Society (Canada) 

A person has died of whooping cough in Canada’s Nunavut territory, health department says

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 13:38
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A person in Nunavut has died of whooping cough, the territorial government confirmed Monday morning. A spokesperson for Nunavut’s Health Department

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Alaska sees first measles case since 2015

Abbey Collins, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Thursday, July 18, 2019 at 16:34
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According to the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, the diagnosis was confirmed Tuesday, in an unvaccinated teenager from

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Canada General Society Society (Canada) 

Medicine will cut ‘shocking’ lung infections in Inuit babies

Lynn Desjardins, Radio Canada International
Posted: Thursday, October 20, 2016 at 13:12
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Indigenous babies in parts of Canada’s north have the highest rates of serious lung infection in the world, research shows.

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