As Yukon’s COVID-19 outbreak intensifies, Skagway looks to avoid a similar fate

The Yukon River at Whitehorse. (Creative Commons photo by Gareth Sloan)
Canada’s Yukon Territory is in the middle of its largest COVID-19 outbreak to date with 54 active cases and one confirmed coronavirus-related death.
As of Wednesday morning, case numbers had more than doubled in just two days. Skagway officials are preparing for nearly 100,000 cruise ship passengers to visit this summer, and are taking steps to make sure the same sort of outbreak doesn’t happen on their side of t