Six months after the Baffin community epidemic was declared, 31 people were identified with active tuberculosis and 108 were diagnosed with latent tuberculosis.
Announcing the outbreak of Pangnirtung in November, Chief Public Health Officer Dr Michael Patterson said the declaration was prompted by a growing number of TB patients in the community of around 1,600 who could not be linked to previously known cases.
Tuberculosis is a treatable disease and those with symptoms are encouraged to see a health center.
Symptoms include a cough that lasts for more than three weeks, feeling very tired, loss of appetite and fever or night sweats.
Latent tuberculosis can also be treated to prevent its activation.
Nunavut does not usually report cases of tuberculosis from communities, believing that the stigma surrounding the disease persists.
Earlier this year, the privacy commissioner said more transparency about the disease was needed, including sharing statistics showing which demographics were affected by the disease.
Tuberculosis has been a scourge in Nunavut for decades.
Hopes were high when the federal government announced in 2018 that it would eradicate tuberculosis in Inuit communities by 2030.
Two years later, the TB rate has hardly changed and funding for the project has dried up.
The COVID-19 pandemic has further slowed efforts to eradicate the disease.
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