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Keep trying, says NWT as residents wait weeks for flu shots

The NWT government says it’s adding flu shot appointments as fast as it can – but some residents are being told the next opening isn’t until January.

Earlier this week, the territory’s chief public health officer said there had been a significant increase in flu across the NWT but particularly in Yellowknife. Wastewater samples also suggest a steady presence of Covid-19 throughout the fall and into winter.

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What’s the NWT’s Covid-19 situation? It’s kinda hard to tell.

Anecdotally, Covid-19 has picked up again in Yellowknife. But tracking the disease in the Northwest Territories is not nearly as easy as it once was.

That’s largely a function of relaxed restrictions. Eliminating mandatory isolation, and the requirement to take a test and report the results when symptomatic, restored freedoms but shut down data sources.

The NWT government’s Covid-19 dashboard, which existed for almost two years, was taken offline at the start of July.

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