March 11, 2020: A Utah Jazz player tests positive two days after a game against the Toronto Raptors, prompting the NBA to suspend its season. 7, 2020: A plane carrying more than 200 Canadians from Wuhan arrives at CFB Trenton in eastern Ontario, where they start a 14-day quarantine. Days later his wife is declared the second case.įeb. He is placed in isolation at Sunnybrook Hospital. 25, 2020: A Toronto man in his 50s who returned from the Chinese city of Wuhan becomes the first presumptive case of the novel coronavirus in Canada. Here’s a look back at some of the major milestones of the past three years. While the virus hasn’t gone anywhere, Ontario has come a long way since declaring an emergency because of the pandemic when it first emerged. “It's just important to be up to date on your vaccinations because if you look at, for example, who gets hospitalized, who gets sick, who succumbs to this illness? Sadly, it is mostly older Canadians and those with underlying medical conditions,” Bogoch said. In general, he said people over 60 or those with underlying medical conditions should get a shot if they haven’t had one in the past six months. “And COVID continues to disproportionately impact older Canadians and Canadians that have underlying medical conditions that put them at greater risk for more severe infection.”īogoch said the vaccination campaign “got much more complicated after second doses” and there remain communities that are under-vaccinated. Isaac Bogoch told CP24 in a conversation about the three-year anniversary Thursday. It is has not gone away,” Infectious Diseases Specialist Dr. While Ontario saw a relative return to normal for much of 2022 and so far this year, society is continuing to grapple with the effects of the pandemic, from remote work, to supply shortages to massive municipal revenue losses.Īnd while the virus itself is no longer threatening to overwhelm hospitals, it remains a real health threat for many people. Little did most people realize then that the pandemic would lead to on and off restrictions for more than two years, leave thousands dead and rock daily life to its core for millions of people in the province and around the world. Back on March 17, 2020, it was thought that restrictions to “flatten the curve” would last for just a few weeks, an extended March Break. It’s now been three years since Ontario declared a state of emergency over the COVID-19 pandemic.
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