Canada now has 507,392 cases total, after passing 500,000 on Saturday.

Health Minister Lorne Kusugak said if people living in Arviat follow isolation rules, the outbreak that has infected nearly 190 people could be over in two weeks.

Schools, businesses and workplaces were allowed to reopen, except in Arviat, which had 65 active cases. The coastal community on the western edge of Hudson Bay is to remain shut down for at least two more weeks.

The Canadian Red Cross is on the ground in Arviat to help people self-isolate and to contact trace.

Only Arviat, which has 86 active coronavirus cases, will remain in lockdown for at least another two weeks.

The funding will go toward food support, personal protective equipment and other essential needs during the territory-wide lockdown imposed last week.

It has been just over two weeks since Nunavut declared its first case of COVID-19, but it's still unknown how 84 people were infected so quickly in the territory.

Experts say overcrowded housing, food insecurity, a high unemployment rate and low educational attainment levels are all contributing factors to the quick spread of cases.

Gatherings will be restricted to five people and are not allowed in homes.

Nunavut recorded its first COVID-19 infection at the beginning of this month and now has 18 cases.