The CCP virus has claimed the lives of two Nunavummiut, the first COVID-19-related deaths in the territory. Meanwhile, Ontario is preparing to announce new restriction measures. “Today we are saddened to inform Nunavummiut of Nunavut’s first COVID-19-releated deaths,” officials wrote in a joint statement on Dec. 20. “On behalf of the Government of Nunavut, we send our thoughts and condolences to the family, communities of Arviat and Rankin Inlet and all Nunavummiut during this difficult time,” they said. The two male victims, identified as Luki Sammurtok and Dan Autut by Nunatsiaq News, both died on Dec. 19. Sammurtok, an Arviat resident, was taken to a southern facility and placed in intensive care unit. According to officials, he passed away in the hospital after developing complications due to the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, which causes the COVID-19 disease. His wife, Diana Sammurtok, posted on her Facebook saying that “COVID-19 is …