COVID-19 pandemic in Canada

The COVID-19 pandemic in Canada is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).

COVID-19 pandemic in Canada
Active cases per million inhabitants by province/territory
Confirmed cases per 100,000 residents by health region
Disease	COVID-19
Location	Canada
First outbreak	Wuhan, Hubei, China
Index case	Toronto, Ontario
Arrival date	January 22, 2020[1] (4 years, 9 months, 1 week and 1 day)
Date	September 9, 2020
Confirmed cases	134,294[2]
Active cases	6,868[2]
Recovered	118,271[2]
Deaths	9,155[2]
Fatality rate	6.82%
Government website
canada.ca/coronavirus

The beginning

The disease was confirmed to have reached Canada on January 27, 2020, after a man who had returned to Toronto from Wuhan, Hubei, China, tested positive. As of September 10, 2020^[update], there have been over 134,000 confirmed cases, 118,000 recoveries and 9,000 deaths in the country.^[2] The Government of Canada said that around 11,000–22,000 deaths could happen over the course of the pandemic.^[3]

Cases

Most of those cases are in Canada's most populous provinces, Ontario (19,598 cases, 1,540 deaths)^[4] and Quebec (36,150 cases, 2,725 deaths).^[5]

Confirmed cases have been reported in all of Canada's provinces and territories. An additional 13 cases involve citizens from the Grand Princess cruise ship.^[6][7][8][9]

Among the Canadians who contracted the virus was Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, wife of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who tested positive for the virus on March 12 after which the family went into self-isolation.^[10][11] By March 28, she had recovered.^[12][13]

Spread

Until March 2020, all cases were linked to recent travel to a country with a large number of cases. The first case of community transmission in Canada was confirmed in British Columbia on March 5,^[14] and Toronto's chief health officer announced on March 16 that there is "some evidence of community transmission" (that the disease was spreading within the country).^[15]

Closures

In mid March, as cases of community transmission were confirmed, all of Canada's provinces and territories declared states of emergency. Provinces and territories made school and daycare shutdown, ended on gatherings, closed non-essential businesses, restrictions on entry, and mandatory self-isolation for travellers.^[16]

Canada severely restricted its border access.

See also

COVID-19 pandemic in British Columbia

References

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