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A year of COVID-19

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Almost a year ago to the day, the NWT reported its first case of COVID-19.

The first case was declared on March 21.

Since then, 42 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the territory. Five NWT residents have caught the virus outside the territory. And 27 non-resident workers have been diagnosed with coronavirus.

NWT has seen travel restrictions, outbreaks and exposure risks.

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While the second and potentially third wave continues to lead to shutdowns in the rest of the country, it has been more than three weeks since the NWT’s last COVID-19 case.

The territory has the fewest cases of any jurisdiction in Canada.

If the NWT was a country, it would have the thirteenth fewest total cases in the world.

But now as more than a third of people of adults in the territory are fully vaccinated, finally there is some light at the end of the tunnel.

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