First box of COVID-19 reported in Northwest Territories

March 21, 2020
Health Care

The Northwest Territories has reported a initial box of COVID-19, according to a press recover sent out on Saturday afternoon by a arch open health officer.

The chairman had trafficked to British Columbia and Alberta, according to a release, and afterwards returned home to Yellowknife.

The individual, and their household, self-isolated after a chairman grown amiable symptoms 3 days after returning.

“The individual’s condition has softened and they are recuperating during home,” states a news release.

Those who might have had hit with a chairman are being contacted to self-isolate immediately, according to a release.

During a press discussion Saturday afternoon, Dr. Kami Kandola, a N.W.T. chief open health officer, said a supervision found out about a box late Friday night.

She pronounced a particular was not an general traveller. The chairman did not uncover symptoms while on a moody home, and returned in a second week of March, she said.

“We need to sojourn calm,” pronounced Kandola.

The recover pronounced that a open is being told of a plcae since it happened in Yellowknife, though should not design to be told in smaller communities. The race of a N.W.T. is roughly 44,904 people, according to a NWT Bureau of Statistics’ 2020 numbers.

‘We knew this day was coming,” pronounced N.W.T. Premier Caroline Cochrane at a press conference.

Cochrane pronounced this initial box is being “investigated thoroughly.”

“We wish to assure a open that we’re holding all suitable measures to keep residents and communities of a domain safe.”

Cochrane pronounced a supervision will continue “to take clever actions to protect” N.W.T. residents.

Health Minister Diane Thom stressed people need to take Kandola’s advice strictly.

“The hazard of COVID-19 poses to a domain is real. The hurdles we now face is significant,” pronounced Thom.

“No choice is off a list as we pierce forward.”

Travel anathema announced Friday

Kandola has “mandated an assertive contrast strategy” to brand and forestall a widespread of COVID-19 opposite a territory, states the release.

As of Saturday during 11 a.m., 299 people have been tested in a territory, according to a N.W.T. Health Department website.

Late Friday evening, a Northwest Territories chief open health officer announced skeleton to anathema many transport into a domain in an bid to box a attainment of a novel coronavirus.

Kandola intends to make an sequence on Saturday that will shorten “all travel” by land, atmosphere and pier into a domain for non-residents. There will be limited exceptions, says a government, that includes N.W.T. residents and supply sequence workers.

What are a symptoms of COVID-19?

The symptoms can include:

Fever.
Cough.
Difficulty breathing.
Pneumonia in both lungs (which would be seen on a chest X-ray).

What should we do if we feel sick?

If we are under 50 years old and differently healthy, only stay home and take caring of yourself. Definitely don’t go to hospital, says Dr. Andrew Morris, an spreading illness dilettante during Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto.

The many critical thing to do is to call ahead to your health care-provider when possible, either we are going to see your primary caring physician, a walk-in clinic, or an puncture dialect during a hospital.