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Dr. Brendan Hanley
Fifteen COVID cases reported Wednesday
The latest information available had the Yukon reporting 15 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday afternoon.
The latest information available had the Yukon reporting 15 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday afternoon.
That brought the active case count to 134 with reported recoveries. Seven cases were in Whitehorse and eight in rural communities.
The Yukon government did not update case numbers on Thursday, and indicated the next advisory would not be released until after press time this afternoon.
The chief medical officer of health, Dr. Brendan Hanley, is strongly recommending that Yukoners take steps to limit contacts over the next four to six weeks. Yukoners are being asked to:
• “Stick to six”: limit social gatherings to a maximum of six people indoors and out.
• Limit organized gatherings to 10 people indoors with masking, 20 outdoors with physical distancing. If possible, consider postponing events.
• In bars and restaurants, do not visit among tables; follow rules of the establishment, do not crowd the bar and, when finished, go home.
• Do not go to work if you are sick or exhibiting any symptoms; at the workplace, follow handwashing, masking and distancing guidelines.
• Daycares: if you are not an essential or critical worker and you can keep your children at home, please do so.
• Check wwith communities when travelling to see what they are posting and limit social visits between communities.
The Yukon’s total case count since March 22, 2020 is 357.
Two hundred nineteen individuals in the most recent outbreak have recovered.
Five deaths have been recorded since November 2020.
One case is a non-Yukon resident. This case is included in the active case count, but not in the total case count.
Exposure notification letters have gone to parents and staff of Little Dreamers Daycare in Whitehorse recommending that all children and staff who were present on either June 18 or June 25 self-isolate and monitor for symptoms until today for the earlier date and July 9 for the later date.
Note only those present on either of those days are considered to be at risk.
Another exposure notice has been issued for the Chilkoot Trail Inn on Fourth Avenue.
If you visited or lived at the inn between June 21 and June 30, you are at risk.
What you should do:
• Monitor for symptoms of COVID-19.
• If you develop any symptoms, stay at home and get tested.
If you were at the inn on the above dates, you may be tested at the COVID-19 Testing and Assessment Centre. You can be tested even if you do not have symptoms.
If you had visitors between those dates, you must tell your visitors to monitor for symptoms and get tested if they develop symptoms.
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Comments (19)
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@DMZ on Jul 9, 2021 at 7:42 am
Point taken, and I understand that different people have different tolerances and concerns about an individual's information. I was just saying that if there's a concern, a person has a choice in signing/not signing a release form. But Groucho is also correct - there are hundreds of people (at least) who have access to a Yukoner's information - addresses, income, medical records, etc etc etc, and vaccination status is just one more item. I believe the authorization form is to verify that the information is accurate, and to prevent faked certificates
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TheHammer on Jul 8, 2021 at 3:04 pm
Politico@ The vehicle referred to was set on fire. The police are investigating. They interviewed tenants and got the same response from the tenants. This drug room has been active for two years. Complaints to YHC go unanswered. The vehicle was towed away. A vehicle torched in the seniors parking lot! So what is your complaint?
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Groucho d'North on Jul 8, 2021 at 1:08 pm
@DMZ
The government already has a file on every person living in the Yukon which includes health information and a number of other things. Privacy left the building long ago.
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Big stick on Jul 8, 2021 at 7:59 am
"Stick it", now get on the border controls that have been the biggest failure to date otherwise the front liners are doing an excellent job and are much appreciated.
Welcome nurses.
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Cases by community now available on Jul 8, 2021 at 7:31 am
Dr Hanley spoke about this recently, and the information is now available. He did say that the numbers may be slightly off, depending where a person was tested, or if the home community was known. https://yukon.ca/en/case-counts-covid-19?fbclid=IwAR3bHErtyDcLGunlPjTigdd4pXjcKg83WnW0VOEzGJkUILYhAmK_HO0khTQ
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DMZ on Jul 7, 2021 at 11:36 pm
@john, your wife...Maybe you missed part of what John said. The Yukon isn't just asking for proof of vaccination, they're asking for access to your health records to prove it. It's an overreach, and no other province is doing that. I can't remember what Manitoba is asking for, but I think it's just the card or something, it is certainly not demanding that you waive your right to privacy to the extent this government is. The Yukon government is the last place I would give permission to rifle through my records.
You can call it a choice, I call it coercion. I could take the 14-day quarantine hit, it would be a hardship. Other people's lives and responsibilities are more complicated. Proof of vaccination does not require a wholesale ferret through all our records and it is not one and the same thing. If you don't care about your privacy, you could at least respect that others have different thresholds, and they're valid.
Silver had the nerve to go to the provinces and demand similar measures. Luckily for their citizens, they appear to be taking a less hysterical approach. You are simply wrong that provinces are asking for the same thing, when they ask for proof of vaccination.
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Politico on Jul 7, 2021 at 6:36 pm
@thehammer - Has this been confirmed? Who at YHC was informed? Have the police been called? How many of the residents have called for help? Who is your informant? So many questions from so little innuendo!
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@DL on Jul 7, 2021 at 7:18 am
Hummingbird Clinic offers testing for asymptomatic people (travel, work, curiosity) if you want to confirm antibodies. I can't paste the link (google it), but the Hummingbird article states that publicly-funded health care system is focusing on symptomatic people, which makes sense.
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naming the communities on Jul 7, 2021 at 7:09 am
From the beginning, Dr Hanley has said he'd let the local communities decide to come forward or not with cases, and most have through local FN councils. Check out facebook page 'one yukon' or if you're planning to travel to a community, find the local council's website or fb page
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John, your wife had a choice on Jul 7, 2021 at 6:56 am
She could have chosen to not show proof of vaccination, and quarantined for 14 days. There's always a choice. The whole issue of privacy of health records, asking for proof of vaccination, etc., will take a while to iron out - next door, Manitoba is doing the same as Yukon, asking for proof of vaccination in order to avoid self-quarantine.
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DL on Jul 6, 2021 at 2:00 pm
For those who have natural immunity from having recovered from covid, please be sure to research the impacts of the covid vaccine. There is evidence of more severe adverse effects from the covid vaccine for those folks. Those who recovered from covid should be able to get an antigen test to prove they have the antibodies and are now immune to covid, and therefore do not need the vaccine.
Do not use google as an internet search engine for those type of searches, as google is doing heavy censorship on those issues.
I like to use duckduckgo.com as a search engine, but there are others too.
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TheHammer on Jul 5, 2021 at 2:29 pm
There are non seniors staying in a room at Alexander street residence. They argue in the corridor at night. They have a vehicle parked in the seniors parking lot with a smashed back window, and four slashed tires. Are they COVID refugees from the shelter/98, are they drug dealers? YHC is unconcerned.
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John on Jul 5, 2021 at 10:52 am
So my wife just drove back from BC and had to sign a form relinquishing all her health care information privacy to whomever the government chooses to release that information. This is after she showed an immunization card. Does anyone actually believe this is ok? Saskatchewan does not and it announced it would not require proof of vaccination from residents looking to return to work or attend events, with one official pointing out that doing so would be a clear violation of the province's Health Information Protection Act.
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Matthew on Jul 5, 2021 at 6:47 am
"Two hundred nineteen individuals in the most recent outbreak have recovered"
You don't say... who could have guessed that!? Everyone who knows the survival rate! LOL
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Jim on Jul 4, 2021 at 7:35 pm
I’m surprised no one is concerned about variants being created by vaccinated persons due to virus growing resistance to vaccine. So like germs grow resistance to antibiotics so why would anyone not think virus resistance to a vaccine.?
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DMZ on Jul 4, 2021 at 1:07 pm
@moose101...and schools. For Whitehorse they narrow it down to schools, classrooms, neighbourhoods, stores both Mom and Pop and otherwise, and times. My guess is that they fear more social repercussions in the communities, but it's still inconsistent, patronizing towards the communities, and creates a subtext where Whitehorse is the bad guy.
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iBrian on Jul 4, 2021 at 12:59 pm
The best part, is they have segregated people into “vaccinated” and “Unvaccinated”.
Yet, those who have had the Covid19, who survived, now the medical professionals will not recognize natural antibodies. There's no other criteria.
So now, if I don’t get vaccinated I lose my job. Check Yuwin, even in the job postings their discriminating against those who don’t have it. To run Heavy Equipment even.
That’s great, glad that after all this, and having had it. Now I need to get something I don’t need just so that someone who has gotten the vaccine can feel safe within 6 ft of me.
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Moose101 on Jul 4, 2021 at 7:55 am
You name hotels and daycares in Whitehorse but you refuse to name communities, what’s your logic in that ?
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Skeptical on Jul 2, 2021 at 3:37 pm
"Stick with six" is unnecessarily harsh and unnuanced guidance. No differentiation between indoor and out, vaccinated or not. Most of us are vaccinated and outdoors because we don't have air conditioning. The risks of such gatherings are miniscule. I don't mind 'doing my part' to ride out this wave but this one is a bit much.