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Public health placing border checkpoint at Fort Smith with summer traffic on the way

Craig Gilbert
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Chief David Poitras of Salt River First Nation believes that some people in Fort Smith are getting a little restless about when the isolation created by the Covid-19 pandemic will be over.

Concerns over increased traffic the summer will bring have prompted public health officials to re-establish a checkpoint at the NWT-Alberta border south of Fort Smith.

Public health officers will be present to monitor those persons entering at the border for travel within the Northwest Territories, according to a news release from Health and Social Services department spokesperson Mike Westwick.

"Travel between Smith’s Landing, Fort Fitzgerald, Pine Lake and Fort Smith will remain unrestricted, provided those traveling to Fort Smith have not visited communities outside of this immediate region of Northern Alberta within the last 14 days," he wrote.

For the latest information on the public health orders in the Northwest Territories, visit the GNWT’s COVID-19 response website.