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Yukon issues 6 COVID-19 public exposure notices including 1 for daycare, 3 flights

Notices issued for Grow with Joy Child Care, 3 Air North flights, areas within the Canada Games Centre and Ajax Steel.

Notices issued for Whitehorse's Grow with Joy Child Care and 3 Air North flights

An Air North plane at the Whitehorse airport, summer 2021. COVID-19 exposure notices were issued by Yukon health officials for three Air North flights as well as for a Whitehorse daycare, areas within the Canada Games Centre and Ajax Steel. (Paul Tukker/CBC)

Yukon health officials issued six public exposure notices Thursday, including three for flights and one for a daycare.

Anyone who was on any of the three following flights is asked to self-monitor for COVID-19 symptoms for 14 days and get tested if any develop.

  • Air North flight 4N563 from Whitehorse to Vancouver, onOct. 23 and Oct. 25.
  • Air North flight 4N761 from Edmonton to Whitehorse, onOct. 21.

Health officials also issued a notice for staff and children in the infant group of theGrow with Joy Child Care in Whitehorse for Oct. 18-20.

A Thursday news release said Yukon Communicable Disease Control has sent notification letters to those who were affected.

The other two notices are for the two locations:

  • Ajax Steel in Whitehorse, from Oct. 14-16, and from Oct. 18-21, between 7:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.
  • The wellness centre and hot tub area of the Canada Games Centre in Whitehorse, on Oct. 26 between 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m.

Anyone who was at these locations at these times is asked to self-monitor for COVID-19 symptoms for 14 days and get tested if any develop.