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COVID-19 has been in Canada for one year


Monday marks one year since the first case of COVID-19 was record in Canada.

A 56-year-old man with a travel history to Wuhan, China was showing signs of pneumonia and due to his travel history, he was admitted to Sunnybrook.

He tested positive for the virus January 25, 2020.

Since then, more than 747,000 Canadians have gotten COVID-19 and more than 19,000 have died.

Justin Trudeau says he understands Canadians are feeling COVID fatigue.

“If you’re tired and fed up, that’s understandable, but remember, this is not forever,” Trudeau said. “With vaccines being rolled out, we’re in the final stretch.”

Shipments of the Pfizer vaccine have been delayed due to a production issue, but Trudeau expects to get hundreds of thousands of doses delivered the week of February 15 and in the weeks to follow.

Trudeau says the Pfizer CEO informed him in a recent call Canada will receive four-million doses by the end of March.

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One comment on “COVID-19 has been in Canada for one year
  1. Mr. Ed says:

    “We’re in the final stretch”? Now (a year after the first registered Covid-19 case) Turdeau is seriously thinking of forcing people coming in to Canada to stay in concentrated hotels for 14 days, regardless of whether they are sick or not! China’s doing a similar thing; but calling them concentration camps. No one appears to think Turdeau’s suggestion is wrong and last March Tam said checking arrivals on airplanes would be racist. Where are the vaccines PM? The boy-child lies so often, he is a disgrace!

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