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"First" Case
A 55-year-old man from the Hubei province in China was reported to be the first person sick due to coronavirus. However, it's highly possible that he isn't patient zero and this can stem even farther back. It's important to identify who the first person that got the virus first to place the definite origin (location, date, what a person could've caught it from), and place measures to ensure it doesn't happen again. However, this is known to be extremely difficult. -
Wuhan reported an unknown pneumonia to WHO's country office in China
From December 31st to January 3rd, 44 patients had caught an pneumonia with an unknown origin. The casual agent had still not been identified. -
First Case in Canada
A 50-year-old man coming from Wuhan, China who called 911 as soon as he felt only light symptoms and was placed in isolation at Toronto's Sunnybrook Hospital. Later it was confirmed that he was indeed infected. -
Declared to be a pandemic by PHEIC
PHEIC (Public Health Emergency of International Concern) is to be defined as a "public health crisis of potentially global reach and implies a situation that is "serious, sudden, unusual or unexpected", which may necessitate immediate international action" COVID-19 fits all the requirements. -
First case to have not come from China
A woman arriving from Iran to land in B.C was tested positive for COVID-19. This signifies that it had already spread a far distance from where it had originated since it came all the way from Iran and she had no recent traveling history of visiting China. -
By the end of March,
there were 8,579 confirmed cases in Canada, Justin Trudeau's wife has been tested positive with COVID-19, all large gatherings were to be stopped, officials enforced the idea of social distancing. -
As of now,
28,379 confirmed positive
8,979 recovered
1,010 death