Driving back to his home in the NWT after two weeks of work in Fort McMurray, Alta, Ernest Tonka wanted to get a COVID-19 rapid test. The government has also sent 4,000 boxes of rapid tests — a total of 20,000 individual tests — to Yellowknife and Inuvik airports. (Walter Strong/CBC)dr. Kami Kandola, the NWT’s chief of public health, said bringing rapid COVID-19 tests to the area’s land borders poses different logistical challenges than distributing them at airports. “The thing with the rapid tests is that it can’t be frozen, which is why it’s hard to spread at those checkpoints,” she said. According to federal government dataBy December 10, the NWT had received nearly 210,000 COVID-19 rapid tests from the federal government.

Source: CBC News December 25, 2021 03:01 UTC