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The Iqaluit Elders Home reopened on Jan. 31. The first resident was admitted on Feb. 2. Nunavut health minister John Main said he was happy to welcome clients back.

The Iqaluit Centennial Library began a curbside pickup program, which will run from Feb. 1 to 11. Members of the library will be able to take out books and digital video discs during select hours throughout the week. Library staff will be assisting in the contactless pick-up.

With the territory approaching the two-year mark for its public health emergency, Nunavut chief public health officer Dr. Michael Patterson noted Nunavut was the last jurisdiction in Canada to get Covid-19. This, he said, was due to the public health measures and various precautions the territorial government took, giving Nunavummiut a head-start in getting vaccinated and protected.

On Feb. 1 four young Iqalummiut presented a review of Nunavut’s Interagency Information Sharing Protocol (IISP) at the Qajuqturvik Community Food Centre, making policy and practice recommendations on the protocol from a youth-led perspective.

The Government of Canada has awarded a $592-million contract to Nasittuq Corporation to operate and maintain the North Warning System for the next seven years.

More than 1,000 Covid-19 cases have been confirmed in the most recent ongoing outbreak in Nunavut, 684 of which are reported recovered.

Iqaluit’s Qajuqturvik Community Food Centre is launching its new Inuliqtait Food Box program, where they hope to provide a consistent source of country food while making it accessible to lower income residents of the city.

With the ongoing roll-out of Covid-19 vaccines in the territory, the amount of people going through southern isolation hubs has been reduced significantly with only unvaccinated people using them.

Nunavut business owners have withstood another Covid-19 lockdown but nearly two years of pandemic disruptions has left them reeling, says Clarence Synard, president of the Baffin Regional Chamber of Commerce.