New exposure notices for Hay River, Fort Providence and Yellowknife - Action News
Home WebMail Saturday, November 23, 2024, 12:43 PM | Calgary | -12.1°C | Regions Advertise Login | Our platform is in maintenance mode. Some URLs may not be available. |
North

New exposure notices for Hay River, Fort Providence and Yellowknife

Seven exposure notices have been issued at businesses in Yellowknife, which still has the highest numbers of COVID-19 cases in the territory. The others, however, are in the communities of Hay River and Fort Providence.

The advice for anyone affected by these exposures is to monitor for symptoms

A city skyline and a setting sun.
Seven of the 10 exposure notices issued Saturday evening are for businesses in Yellowknife. (Graham Shishkov/CBC)

Tenexposure notices were issued by public health officials in the N.W.T. on Saturday evening.

The majority of them are in Yellowknife, but two are in Hay River and one is in Fort Providence.

Anyone who attended Hay River'sPtarmigan Inn Restaurant on Oct. 3 from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. orRed Roosteron Oct. 2, between 3 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. is asked to monitor themselves for symptoms, and to isolate and arrange for testing if symptoms develop.

The advice is the same for anyone who was at the Big River Service Centre in Fort Providence on Oct. 3 from 2 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

There were, as of the territory's last update on Friday, sevenactive cases of COVID-19 in Hay River andKt'odeeche First Nation and no cases in Fort Providence.

In the Yellowknife, Dettah, Ndil region, however, there were 281 cases as of the last update. Seven of the new COVID-19 exposure notices are at grocery stores, restaurants and other businesses in Yellowknife.

You can find a full list of them here.