Covid-19 case confirmed in Hay River, no risk to public

Sarah Pruys·Saturday June 26, 2021 at 10:23am MTUpdated: June 28, 2021 at 6:40am MT

A 3D visualization of the Sars-CoV-2 virus published by medical illustration firm Iso-Form LLC in 2020.

One new Covid-19 case has been confirmed in Hay River in a non-resident.

The case is related to out-of-territory travel and there are no public health risk exposures currently.

The NWT’s office of the chief public health officer said in a news release the person and their close contacts are isolating and doing well.

The new case brings the NWT’s total Covid-19 cases in non-residents up to one, while no NWT residents currently have the disease.

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