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The virus was confirmed to have reached Canada on January 25, 2020, after an individual who had returned to Toronto from Wuhan, Hubei, China, tested positive. The first case of community transmission in Canada was confirmed in British Columbia on March 5. [6]
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On January 28, 2020, British Columbia became the second...
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The disease was confirmed to have reached Canada on January...
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In December 2019, a new type of coronavirus quietly emerged in China. It most likely originated in animals, particularly bats, which transmitted the virus to other animals and humans and then between humans, none having any immunity. On 31 December 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) was formally notified of the first cluster of cases of a se...
The first human cases of COVID-19 occurred in China in December 2019, mostly among those who had visited the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in the city of Wuhan (with a few earlier cases not linked to the market). However, it remains unclear how many were infected by an animal and how many from another infected person. There have been questions ab...
On 7 January 2020, Chinese authorities publicly identified the new virus, and on 12 January, they shared its genetic sequence. The WHO initially named it “2019 novel coronavirus” and later settled on SARS-CoV-2. The first known death was reported on 11 January, and by 21 January human-to-human transmission was confirmed. The United States also conf...
The initial model for understanding SARS-CoV-2 was based on how the first SARS epidemic spread in 2003, particularly in Canada and especially in Toronto. With SARS, the virus was most infectious when those infected were severely ill, which was about two weeks after exposure. Indeed, in early January 2020, Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. T...
On 11 March 2020, the WHO officially declared a global pandemic. This followed a series of alarming developments, including the imposition of a full national lockdown in Italy on 9 March. On 11 March, the National Basketball Association suspended its season after one COVID-19 case was confirmed, followed by the suspension of other professional spor...
The COVID-19 pandemic hit home for Canadians, at least symbolically, on 12 March 2020, when Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, wife of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, tested positive for the virus. This forced the first family into quarantine and the prime ministerto manage the escalating crisis from his home. By 15 March, there had been 317 cases, including ...
As of July 2022, there have been seven waves of the pandemic in Canada. The first wave peaked on 30 May 2020, and then incidence declined until late summer. The second wave began to build in mid-July 2020, and by September 23, restrictions and regional lockdowns had again been implemented, along with increased economic aid programs. The second wave...
During the second wave, the pandemicwas complicated by the emergence and rapid spread of a “variant of concern” known as “Alpha.” It first appeared in the United Kingdom in September 2020 and began to spread in Canada in December, where it caused more than 268,000 cases. A second “variant of concern,” later called “Beta,” first became apparent in S...
Throughout the pandemic, federal, provincial and local governments have imposed a series of public healthrestrictions and lockdowns and a variety of vaccine mandates to contain or slow the spread of the virus and reduce often overwhelming pressure on hospitals and the health-care system. The federaland provincial governments have also provided a va...
It normally takes an average of 10 to 15 years for a vaccine to move from the initial concept to testing and approval to, finally, administration. However, because of the urgency of the pandemic, a process of parallel steps was developed. The public release of the SARS-CoV-2 genetic sequence on 12 January 2020 sparked an unprecedented level of gove...
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is a global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).
- 6,956,160 (reported), 17.5–31.4 million (estimated)
- Worldwide
- Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
- Severe acute respiratory syndromecoronavirus 2 (SARS‑CoV‑2)
The virus was confirmed to have reached Canada on January 25, 2020, after an individual who had returned to Toronto from Wuhan, Hubei, China, tested positive. The first case of community transmission in Canada was confirmed in British Columbia on March 5.
Jan 25, 2021 · Canada reported its first "presumptive" case of COVID-19 on Jan. 25, 2020, a few weeks after Chinese health officials identified a new strain of coronavirus in Wuhan, China. The...
