Security guard tests positive for COVID-19 at a hotel in Canada’s capital city
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
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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Coronavirus: Russia hints it might close its border with Norway, Finland
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
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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First case of coronavirus tested in Arctic Norway
A woman from the north Norwegian town of Tromsø has tested positive for the coronavirus. The woman was tested after
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Officials track down most of those exposed to coronavirus in Arctic Finland
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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Concern over coronavirus outbreak impacts tourism in northern Europe and Arctic Russia
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’s first coronavirus case confirmed in Lapland
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
Tour operators and hotels in Yellowknife are being hit with a number of cancellations from Chinese tourists in the wake
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A person has died of whooping cough in Canada’s Nunavut territory, health department says
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
According to the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, the diagnosis was confirmed Tuesday, in an unvaccinated teenager from
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Medicine will cut ‘shocking’ lung infections in Inuit babies
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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