Recent observations of GN-z11 with JWST have revealed a Ly emission line with an equivalent width of 18 angstroms. At z=10.6, this galaxy is expected to lie in the heart of reionization. We use a series of inhomogeneous reionization simulations to derive the distribution of the Ly EW after traveling through the neutral intergalactic medium with varying average neutral gas fraction, . We use these distribution to place an upper limit of 0.88 at z=10.6 at 95% confidence level. We compare our upper limit to different reionization history models, which include the recently identified enhancement at the bright end of the luminosity function at z>8. We find that models in which faint galaxies have higher escape fraction compared to bright galaxies are favored by the new data.

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