COVID-19 pandemic in the Northwest Territories | |
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Disease | COVID-19 |
Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
Location | Northwest Territories, Canada |
First outbreak | Wuhan, Hubei, China |
Index case | Yellowknife |
Arrival date | March 21, 2020 (4 years, 4 months, 4 weeks and 1 day) |
Date | April 20, 2022 |
Confirmed cases | 10,779 |
Active cases | 55 |
Hospitalized cases | 0 |
Recovered | 10,702 |
Deaths | 22 |
Fatality rate | 0.2% |
Government website | |
NWT Government |
The COVID-19 pandemic in the Northwest Territories is part of an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). As of February 23, 2022, there have been 8,495 confirmed cases in Northwest Territories with 7,999 recoveries and 19 deaths.
On March 21, 2020, the Northwest Territories reported its first case of COVID-19; the individual had travelled to British Columbia and Alberta before returning home to Yellowknife.[1]