7/8/2023 0 Comments Montreal total lockdownMarch 13: Quebec enters two-week lockdown The World Health Organization declares the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic, Quebec numbers hit double digits, and Quebec minister of Health Danielle McCann advises Quebecers to avoid taking cruises. Montreal’s public-health officials confirm that a person with COVID-19 had taken public transit before testing positive, and that she had been showing symptoms while commuting. March 10 – Flight cancellations begin, COVID-19 enters public transitĪir Canada cancels flights between Canada and Italy, and Quebec records seven total confirmed cases, all people who had travelled outside of Canada. Coronavirus newsletter sign-up: Get The COVID-19 Brief sent to your inbox.Complete coverage at CTVNews.ca/coronavirus.At the same time, 20 people were under COVID-19 related investigation. Just hours later, provincial health authorities confirmed a third case. At the time, hospital officials told CTV News they had confidence in Montreal’s health network protocols to handle an outbreak.Ī Mont-Laurier man in the Laurentians returned from a trip to India and was treated for COVID-19 symptoms. The hospital had undergone renovations in 2016 following the outbreak of the Swine Flu. With just one active case in the province, the Jewish General Hospital announces it is one of two designated COVID-19 response hospitals in Montreal, fit with special ventilation systems. “I want to reassure Quebecers: all measures have been taken to protect the population.” Legault wrote on Twitter. 29 after a man returned to Toronto from Wuhan, China, Quebec’s first known COVID-19 case was when a Montreal-area woman returned to the province from Iran with symptoms. While Canada’s first presumed case of coronavirus was noted Jan. Arruda testified that his memo should have made its way into the administration.įebruary 27: Quebec records its first case of the novel coronavirus Opposition parties criticized the Francois Legault government for what they call a slow response to the risk of the pandemic. Horacio Arruda’s year-end testimony in front of the national assembly, he first wrote what he called the ‘state of the situation’ on the early stages of the coronavirus, which until just days before had been isolated in China. January 18: Arruda pens first ‘state of the situation’Īccording to Dr. CTV News Montreal looks back at a COVID-19 year from where it began to the current state of the novel coronavirus pandemic in Quebec heading into 2021:
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