SARS-CoV-2 has left hundreds of thousands dead, many permanently compromised, while many others have barely noticed their infection. Although pandemic morbidities have declined over the last 100 years, intense globalisation has accelerated the spread of these pandemics.ĬOVID-19 is highly infectious (basic reproduction number, R0, varying between 1.9 and 6.5 but typically between 2 and 3 ), exhibits a relatively long but infectious asymptomatic period, and is environmentally persistent. In fact, SARS-CoV-2 is the fifth pandemic to affect the world since the 1918 flu outbreak, known as Spanish flu. COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) has, since December 2019, spread to all of the world’s 198 countries, including all Arctic states. Consequently, Arctic regions are particularly vulnerable to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Most remote settlements in the Arctic have access to only limited health care facilities or other infrastructure to implement COVID-19 preventive or mitigation measures. The Arctic is home to more than seven million residents, including the Indigenous Peoples. This includes understanding of the COVID-19 patterns, mortality and morbidity, the relationships with public-health conditions, socioeconomic characteristics, policies, and experiences of the Indigenous Peoples.ĭata used in this paper are available at. Despite limitations in available data, further efforts to track and analyse the pandemic at the pan-Arctic, regional and local scales are crucial. Based on the trends and magnitude of the pandemic through July, we classify Arctic regions into four groups: Iceland, Faroe Islands, Northern Norway, and Northern Finland with elevated early incidence rates, but where strict quarantines and other measures promptly curtailed the pandemic Northern Sweden and Alaska, where the initial wave of infections persisted amid weak (Sweden) or variable (Alaska) quarantine measures Northern Russia characterised by the late start and subsequent steep growth of COVID-19 cases and fatalities and multiple outbreaks and Northern Canada and Greenland with no significant proliferation of the pandemic. Preliminary analysis of available COVID-19 data in the Arctic at the regional (subnational) level suggests that COVID-19 infections and mortality were highly variable, but generally remained below respective national levels. Since February 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic has been unfolding in the Arctic, placing many communities at risk due to remoteness, limited healthcare options, underlying health issues and other compounding factors.
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