It’s been five years since the first COVID 19 Locking started in Ontario.
In the days preceded on March 17, 2020 – Ontario officially declared the state of emergency – companies and governments already issued orders before the introduction of official locking.
These measures were put in place to limit the propagation of the virus, and have been gradually lifted and sometimes reintroduced in the months that followed.
This is what the province looked like at the time.
The man passes his dog in front of one of the numerous churches closed due to the novel Coronavirus (COVVI-19) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on March 16, 2020. The province of Ontario announced a day before that it closes all schools, libraries, day ways and community centers to slow down the spread of Covid-19.
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On January 25, 2020, the first alleged case of COVID-19 was reported in Ontario (and in Canada) when a man in the fifties, from Wuhan, in China, felt minor symptoms. He called 911 and was placed in isolation at Sunnybrook hospital in Toronto.
His wife became the second case and began to self-isolate the next day. Man’s disease is officially confirmed two days later.
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Then, in the coming weeks, other cases appeared and on March 11, 2020, a man from Barrie, 77, died, becoming the first death of Ontario attributed to Covid-19.
The report of the World Health Organization of a world pandemic the same day, and has set in motion policies that would upset the life of Canadians for the coming years – from the closure of borders to the closure of schools and businesses to the ban on social gatherings.
The library closed its doors due to the Roman Coronavirus (COVVI-19) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on March 16, 2020. Canada announced that it closed its borders to most foreigners for the slow propagation of COVVI-19.
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Then a day later, on March 12, the Prime Minister of Ontario, Doug Ford, announced that the schools in the province would be closed for two weeks after the holidays in March. However, it would turn out that schools would remain closed for the rest of the school year and that courses would go to online learning.
On March 14, 2020, Canadians who were outside the country were strongly exhorted by the federal government to return home because “new restrictions can be imposed with few prowers”. Previously, the federals had urged Canadians to cancel or postpone non -essential trips.
Three days later, Ford declared the state of emergency in Ontario, ordering certain companies to close, including daycares, bars and restaurants, theaters and private schools.
In the coming weeks, all non -essential companies have closed their doors and thousands of people in Ontario will be infected with the virus.
All this led to roller coaster mountains implemented and taken up more than two years before the deployment of vaccines helped master things.
With Global News ‘Files’ Kevin Nielsen and the Canadian Press
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