YELLOWKNIFE (APRIL 2, 2020) – NWT Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Kami Kandola issued the following statement on the resolution of the investigation into a group of Hong Kong tourists who visited Yellowknife and later tested positive for COVID-19:

“After an exhaustive investigation, we can confirm the following.

“There were six, rather than seven, tourists who visited as part of a group to Yellowknife.

“These six individuals travelled to Yellowknife from Hong Kong with a stopover in Toronto along the way.

YELLOWKNIFE (MARCH 28, 2020) -- NWT Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Kami Kandola offered the following response a story published in NNSL on March 27, 2020 detailing a brazen lack of consideration for public health by an individual crossing the NWT boundary:

“Last week, we declared a Public Health Emergency in this territory. We took aggressive measures to protect our friends, families, communities, and healthcare system by restricting cross-border traffic, and establishing isolation areas in Hay River, Yellowknife, Fort Smith, and Inuvik.