10:35 a.m.
Nunavut is reporting six new cases of COVID-19 today.
There are 64 active cases of COVID-19 in Nunavut, 63 in Iqaluit and one in Kinngait.
An outbreak was declared in Iqaluit on April 15 and has swelled to 235 cases to date.
Iqaluit remains under a strict lockdown, with all non-essential businesses, schools and workplaces closed.
On Monday, Nunavut’s chief public health officer said the territory had requested enough doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to vaccinate all of the territory’s population aged 12 to 17, about 4,300 people.
Two Iqaluit residents with COVID-19 are in an Ottawa hospital.
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10:25 a.m.
Ontario has reported 17 new COVID-19 fatalities.
This brings the country’s death toll to 25,000.
The first person died of COVID-19 in Canada on March 9, 2020.
Canada surpassed 20,000 deaths at the end of January.
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This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 18, 2021.
Laura Dhillon Kane, The Canadian Press
