You cannot go back to your home community without first self-isolating for 14 days in Yellowknife, Inuvik, Hay River or Fort Smith. If you don’t have a place to stay, the Government of the Northwest Territories will arrange accommodations for you.

You will also need to:

• Complete the approved self-isolation plan within 24 hours and complete and submit the symptom check form to Protect NWT online or by calling Protect NWT at 8-1-1 on your 2^nd, 6^th, 10^th and 14^th days of self-isolation.
• Monitor your health for symptoms of COVID-19.
• Follow healthy respiratory practices
• Complete the online self-assessment to determine whether you should be arranging for a test if you begin feeling sick. If you need to be tested, contact the appropriate medical centre by phone and they will give you further instructions. Do not go in without speaking to them by phone first.

Please confirm with the provider that arranged your appointment for advice. In the event you are told to go, you will need to self-isolate for 14 days upon your return in Yellowknife, Inuvik, Hay River or Fort Smith only. You will not be allowed to self-isolate in a small community or other regional centre other than the four listed communities if they have returned from outside the NWT.

You will need to:

• Complete the approved self-isolation plan within 24 hours and complete and submit the symptom check form to Protect NWT online or by calling Protect NWT at 8-1-1 on your 2^nd, 6^th, 10^th and 14^th days of self-isolation.
• Monitor your health for symptoms of COVID-19.
• Follow healthy respiratory practices

Only the following can travel within the NWT. However, each group will have their own self-isolation or travel restrictions and requirements:

• Northwest Territories residents (includes students temporarily living in the NWT to attend an educational facility, college, or trade school).
• Persons traveling within the NWT from Nunavut are exempt from all self-isolation requirements where travel originates in Nunavut.
• Flight crews and airline employees.
• Essential Service Workers, including but not limited to, health and social service providers, postal service workers, peace officers and others employed for the preservation and maintenance of the public peace, emergency responders, employees of and persons engaged by the Department of National Defence, municipal enforcement officers, community government essential service workers and, federal and territorial parks officers, and Correctional Officers transporting inmates.
• Persons engaged in providing child and dependent care to essential services workers.
• Persons participating in traditional harvesting and on the land activities that cross the NWT border but do not enter any communities as part of this, with the exception of travelling through Fort Smith to exercise their treaty rights to harvest.
• Transient workers employed at work camp where work is done in relation to the NWT mineral and petroleum resources industry.
• Remote and non-remote infrastructure workers.
• Inmates in transit.
• Persons moving to live in the NWT, including students who will be attending an educational facility, college or trade school.
• Non-resident workers.
• Persons with Public Health Officer issued Standard, Limited or Restricted Access Passes traveling via the Fort Smith NWT-Alberta border.
• Persons otherwise granted approval by the Chief Public Health Officer for reasons including but not limited to compassionate or family reunification.

If they are in the NWT for less than 36 hours, they must self-monitor and comply with the social distancing protocols established by the Chief Public Health Officer while working and self-isolate while not working.

If they show symptoms of COVID-19, they must immediately self-isolate and call a health care provider.

If they will be in the NWT for more than 36 hours, they must:

• Submit a worker self-isolation plan to protectnwt@gov.nt.ca or by calling 1-833-378-8297 as soon as reasonably possible.
• They must stay in their accommodations and self-isolate when not working.
• Comply with social distancing protocols when working. If this is not possible, they must wear a face covering or personal protective equipment.
• If they are sick, they must not travel into the NWT.
• And If they get sick while they are here, they must immediately go into self-isolation and call a health care provider.

If they are NWT residents and have not travelled outside Canada within the past 14 days, but have travelled outside the NWT as part of their work duties, they are exempt from the above, but must:

• abide by  the Travel Restriction Protocol established by the Chief Public Health Officer while working outside of the Northwest Territories;

• maintain 2 meters distance from persons outside their household while working. When this is not possible, wear a face-covering or personal protective equipment;

• self-isolate while not working;
• self-monitor for symptoms of COVID-19 and complete the daily self-monitoring form while working outside of the Northwest Territories and for 14 days following their return to the Northwest Territories, and make the completed form readily available upon request from a public health official;  and
• immediately self-isolate and contact a health care provider if they exhibit any symptoms of COVID-19.

The following steps shall be taken by all workers:

1. Practice social distancing for 14 days prior to traveling within the NWT;
2. Practice enhanced hand hygiene;
3. Follow healthy respiratory practices and enhanced disinfection procedures;
4. Monitor themselves for symptoms 14 days prior to traveling within the NWT, using the attached daily self-monitoring form;
5. Follow guidance included in the Protocol if you or a member of your household have or develop COVID-19 symptoms during the 14 days prior to traveling within the NWT;
6. Have the completed daily self-monitoring form ready if required to produce the completed form at a port of entry into the NWT; and
7. Provide the completed daily self-monitoring form to their Occupational Health Supervisor upon arrival to the remote camp.

For more information, see Social Distancing Protocol for Remote Work Camps - In Relaxing Phase 2

If you have a credible and specific complaint that any individual is disobeying this order, you are asked to email protectnwt@gov.nt.ca or call 1-833-378-8297, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Your complaint will be investigated by the Office of the Chief Public Health Officer or any other person ordered to investigate the complaint.

No. If you have a treaty right to harvest in an area of the NWT, you do not need to self-isolate. However, you cannot travel to communities or populated areas. The maps below will assist you so that you do not cross community boundaries:

• Community Limits for Fort Providence
• Community Limits for Fort Resolution
• Community Limits in the Deh Cho Region
• Community Limits in the Fort Smith Region
• Community Limits in the Mackenzie Delta Region
• Community Limits in the South Slave Region

Yes. However, before travelling within the NWT, you must have a Protect NWT approved Resident Self-Isolation Plan. You must also show proof that you will be studying in the  Territory by providing a post-secondary enrollment letter or statutory declaration.

On arrival, you must self-isolate for 14 days in Yellowknife, Inuvik, Hay River or Fort Smith only. You will not be allowed to self-isolate in a small community or other regional centre other than the four listed communities.

You will need to:

• Complete the approved self-isolation plan two weeks ahead of time and have it approved before traveling within the NWT and complete and submit the symptom check form to Protect NWT online or calling Protect NWT at 8-1-1 on your 2^nd, 6^th, 10^th and 14^th days of self-isolation.
• Monitor your health for symptoms of COVID-19.
• Follow healthy respiratory practices
• Complete the online self-assessment to determine whether you should be arranging for a test if you begin feeling sick. If you need to be tested, contact the appropriate medical centre by phone and they will give you further instructions. Do not go in without speaking to them by phone first.

If you need to isolate in an isolation centre, your costs will be covered.

Non-resident family and friends cannot travel within the NWT unless they have received approval from the Chief Public Health Officer. If they are granted approval, they must self-isolate and stay for 14 days at a designated isolation facility in Yellowknife, Inuvik, Hay River or Fort Smith or with family or friends in one of these communities. They cannot self-isolate in a small community or other regional centre other than the four listed communities.

To be considered for an exemption, they will need to complete a self-isolation plan and submit it to Protect NWT:

To travel within the NWT, they will need to:

• Have their self-isolation plan  approved by Protect NWT two weeks ahead of time before traveling within the NWT and complete and submit the symptom check form to Protect NWT online or by calling 8-1-1 on their 2^nd, 6^th, 10^th and 14^th days of self isolation.
• Monitor their health for symptoms of COVID-19.
• Follow healthy respiratory practices
• Complete the online self-assessment to determine whether they should be arranging for a test if they begin feeling sick. If they need to be tested, they must contact the appropriate medical centre by phone and must follow the provided instructions. They cannot go in without speaking to a health care provider from the medical centre by phone first.

You can enter without the need for self-isolation in the following situations:

• Your travel originates in Alberta north of and including the vicinity of Fort Fitzgerald and the Salt River Day Use area and you have been issued a Standard Access Pass (allows for day-use travel) for certain activities. 
• Your travel originates in Alberta north of Hay Camp on Highway 61, or north of Peace Point on Highways 58 and 60 (includes Pine Lake) and you have been issued a Limited Access Pass (allows for day-use travel) for certain activities.
• Your travel originates in Alberta in or south of Hay Camp on Highway 61, or in or south of Peace Point on Highways 58 and 60, but not as far as Fort Chipewyan, and you have been issued a Restricted Access Pass for certain activities.

This in in effect while there is no winter road access south of Hay Camp on Highway 61, or south of Peace Point on Highways 58 and 60, directly connecting those locations to the rest of Northern Alberta.

You can obtain the appropriate pass at the Fort Smith check stop.

For more information, please see Fort Smith Border Protocol.