Nunavut is reporting two presumptive cases of COVID-19 at an iron mine on the northern tip of Baffin Island.
The territory is the only jurisdiction in Canada without a confirmed case of the infection.
Two previous presumed positive cases turned out to be negative.
One of those was also at the Mary River mine.
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The territory’s chief public health officer, Dr. Michael Patterson, says there is no evidence of transmission at the mine site.
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He says the two people are asymptomatic and have been placed in isolation.
Additional swabs have been sent to a lab for confirmation and results are expected next week.
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