![]() ![]() May 23: Thousands pack a park on a sunny day in Toronto, creating fears of a new outbreak. May 19: Many stores reopen in Ontario, B.C. May 14: Many stores, child-care centres and hair salons open in Alberta. May 13: The country's top doctor says Canadians in communities where COVID-19 is still spreading should wear non-medical masks when they can't stay physically distant from others. ![]() May 11: Some Quebec schools reopen and Ontario stores start offering curbside pickup. May 8: The unemployment rate rockets up to 13 per cent, the second-highest figure on record in Canada. May 4: Restrictions begin to lift in several provinces including Quebec and Manitoba. Government announces more than one million people lost their jobs in March.Īpril 13: Federal government announces nearly 5.4 million Canadians are receiving emergency aid.Īpril 15: Canada passes 1,000 virus-related deaths.Īpril 22: Ontario and Quebec, the hardest-hit provinces, call on the military to help out in long-term care homes.Īpril 23: Canadian death toll passes 2,000 as country announces it will pour $1.1 billion into vaccine testing.Īpril 25: New Brunswick introduces a two-household bubble, allowing people to interact with others. ![]() Theresa Tam, Canada's chief public health officer, says wearing masks is a way for people who might have COVID-19 without realizing it to keep from spreading the illness.Īpril 9: Ottawa projects 4,400 to 44,000 Canadians could die of COVID-19. company 3M told by the White House to stop exporting N95 respirators to Canada.Īpril 6: 3M makes a deal with the White House to provide N95 masks to Canada. March 30: Trudeau says a new wage subsidy program will cover all businesses whose revenue has dropped by at least 30 per cent because of COVID-19.Īpril 2: COVID-19 death toll passes 100 in Canada.Īpril 3: Ontario projects COVID-19 death toll could reach 15,000.Īpril 4: U.S. ![]() Canada makes it mandatory for all travelers arriving in the country to quarantine for 14 days. March 24: Olympics officially postponed until 2021. March 23: Ottawa announces repatriation flights for Canadians stranded in foreign countries. March 22: Canada says it won't compete in the Tokyo Olympics or Paralympics. March 20: COVID-19 cases pass 1,000 across the country. 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. Newsletter sign-up: Get The COVID-19 Brief sent to your inbox. ![]()
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