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A look at the latest COVID-19 news in Canada: - Ontario will soon begin easing COVID-19 restrictions, starting...

The federal government is providing Nunavut with three nurses and nine contact tracers to help handle the wave of COVID-19 that is spreading across the territory.

Some lockdown measures in much of Nunavut lifted Monday, allowing non-essential businesses to reopen and Nunavummiut to hold small indoor gatherings again. Some public health restrictions remain in place.

Five Iqaluit laboratory technologists resigned in the fall, partly over being denied a $10,000 retention bonus offered to Nunavut's nurses.

Nunavut Premier PJ Akeeagok and Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Michael Patterson will speak to media Thursday morning in Iqaluit.

Premier P.J. Akeeagok, Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Michael Patterson, Health Minister John Main and Education Minister Pamela Gross will give the latest COVID-19 update Tuesday at 11 a.m. ET.

The government of Nunavut's review into the Iqaluit water crisis will be an independent investigation behind the scenes. But should that investigation happen in public view?

IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut will no longer offer lab-confirmed testing for communities with COVID-19 to free up health-care resources. Chief public health

IQALUIT, Nunavut — Nunavut will no longer offer lab-confirmed testing for communities with COVID-19 to free up health-care resources.

Chief public health officer Dr. Michael Patterson said that means Nunavut’s case counts will no longer reflect the total number of infections.