![]() ![]() March 19: New Brunswick declares a state of emergency. and Saskatchewan declare states of emergency. March 18: Canada and the United States announce they will close their shared border to non-essential traffic. March 17: Ontario and Alberta declare states of emergency. March 16: Canada announces it is closing its borders to non-Canadians, apart from Americans and a few other exceptions. March 15: Nova Scotia reports its first three cases. March 14: The federal government urges Canadians currently abroad to return home as soon as possible March 13: The federal government announces Parliament will go on break. Manitoba and Saskatchewan report their first cases. The Ontario government announces schools across the province will be closed for two weeks after March break. Minor hockey across the country is cancelled. The NHL and most other sports leagues suspend seasons. March 12: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau self-isolates after his wife Sophie Gregoire Trudeau tests positive for COVID-19. A Utah Jazz player tests positive two days after a game against the Toronto Raptors, causing the NBA to suspend its season. March 11: The World Health Organization declares COVID-19 a pandemic. A man in his 80s died in a North Vancouver nursing home. March 8: Canada records its first death from COVID-19. announces eight new cases, including Canada’s first-ever case possibly contracted within the community, rather than through travel or contact with other cases. 27: Quebec public health officials report the province’s first presumptive case, a woman from the Montreal region who recently returned from Iran. The Toronto man who was the country’s first confirmed case is cleared after testing negative for the virus.įeb. 20: A woman who returned from Iran becomes B.C.’s sixth case of COVID-19 and the first person in Canada diagnosed with the illness who did not recently visit China or have close contact with someone who did. 7: A plane carrying more than 200 Canadians from Wuhan arrives at CFB Trenton in eastern Ontario, where they start a 14-day quarantine.įeb. a woman who had family visiting from China’s Hubei province. 4: There is another presumptive case reported in B.C. The man is in self-isolation at his Vancouver home.įeb. Health officials in British Columbia say a man in his 40s who travels to China for work is presumed to have COVID-19. 28: The Toronto man’s wife is declared the second confirmed case of COVID-19. 27: The National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg confirms that the Toronto man being treated at Sunnybrook Hospital is the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Canada. The woman is allowed to self-isolate at home. 26: The man’s wife, who had travelled with him from Wuhan, also tests positive, becoming the country’s second presumptive case. The man is placed in isolation in Toronto’s Sunnybrook Hospital. 25: A Toronto man in his 50s who returned from the Chinese city of Wuhan - the initial epicentre of the outbreak - becomes the first presumptive case of the novel coronavirus in Canada. Here’s a timeline of key developments in the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada since the first presumptive case was reported on Jan.
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