N.W.T. chief public health officer, medical director, to give COVID-19 update
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N.W.T. health officials will provide an update on the COVID-19 situation in the territory this afternoon at 2 p.m.
Dr. Kami Kandola, the N.W.T.'s chief public health officer, will be joined at the news conference by Dr. AnneMarie Pegg, the territorial medical director.
Watch it live here, on CBC North's Facebook page or tune in to CBC North Radio One.
The N.W.T. reported 378 COVID-19 cases across the territory Tuesday, the most it has seen since the start of the pandemic.
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"We have not started to plateau yet. We are still picking up cases and worrying about our response to that. Obviously, it's stretching us as far as we can go to keep up with the number of new cases," Green told CBC News.
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