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During the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, outbreaks of the virus took place in factories operated by the meat packing industry and the poultry processing industry. These outbreaks affected multiple plants, leading to closures of some factories and disruption of others, and posing a threat to the food supply in Canada.
The COVID-19 pandemic had a deep impact on the Canadian economy, leading it into a recession. The government's social distancing rules had the effect of limiting economic activity in the country. Companies started mass layoffs of workers, and Canada's unemployment rate was 13.5 percent in May 2020, the highest it has been since 1976. [1]
Canada has an extremely high rate of plastic waste of 3 million tonnes per year. [16] Out of all the material that Canadians dispose of in the recycling bin, 12% is exported to other countries, such as Malaysia, where it is processed and damages the environment and the health of the population. [ 17 ]
All timelines, overviews, breakdowns, lists, and graphs on this page are based on data published in regular official reports by Health Canada in cooperation with Public Health Agency of Canada. [ 1 ] Timeline of cases and deaths in Canada
The COVID-19 pandemic in Canada is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 . It is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Most cases over the course of the pandemic have been in Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia and Alberta. Confirmed cases have been reported in all of Canada's ...
On January 28, 2020, British Columbia became the second province to confirm a case of COVID-19 in Canada. [2] The first case of infection involved a patient who had recently returned from Wuhan, Hubei, China. [3] The first case of community transmission in Canada was confirmed in British Columbia on March 5, 2020. [4]
In December 2020, Health Canada approved clinical trials for a new COVID-19 subunit vaccine developed by the University of Saskatchewan Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization–International Vaccine Centre (VIDO–InterVac), which were expected to begin in January 2021 at the Canadian Center for Vaccinology in Halifax as a combined phase 1 ...
Most grocery stores or pharmacies refused entry to people with COVID-19 symptoms in Montreal. May 3 — As Montrealers experienced their second day of +20 °C (68 °F) weather of the year and began crowding into parks, [64] the city announced the closure of the parking lots at La Fontaine Park, Maisonneuve Park, Jarry Park, Frédéric-Back Park, and the Île de la Visitation nature park ...