An annual music festival was postponed due to a tuberculosis outbreak in northern Quebec, as the Nunavik region grapples with a series of outbreaks in several communities.
Salluit’s festival was supposed to start June 29, but will now happen in the fall. Salluit resident Ida Saviakjuk said the decision was made to prevent the illness from spreading.
“It will go ahead when people are feeling better,” Saviakjuk told CBC in Inuktitut.
Five Nunavik communities are currently dealing with outbreaks of tuberculosis. These latest outbreaks are part of an issue that continues to plague many remote northern communities, fuelled by overcrowded housing and poverty.
Though the Nunavik Regional Board of
