COVID-19 pandemic in the Northwest Territories

COVID-19 pandemic in the Northwest Territories
Border Checkpoint on the Dempster Highway
Disease	COVID-19
Virus strain	SARS-CoV-2
Location	Northwest Territories, Canada
First outbreak	Wuhan, Hubei, China
Index case	Yellowknife
Arrival date	March 21, 2020 (4 years, 1 month, 3 weeks and 5 days)
Date	April 20, 2022
Confirmed cases	10,779
Active cases	55
Hospitalized cases	0
Recovered	10,702
Deaths	22
Fatality rate	0.2%
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NWT Government

The COVID-19 pandemic in the Northwest Territories is part of an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). As of February 23, 2022, there have been 8,495 confirmed cases in Northwest Territories with 7,999 recoveries and 19 deaths.

On March 21, 2020, the Northwest Territories reported its first case of COVID-19; the individual had travelled to British Columbia and Alberta before returning home to Yellowknife.^[1]