A TIMELINE OF COVID-19 IN CANADA

Jan. 25: A Toronto man in his 50s who returned from the Chinese city of Wuhan — the initial epicentre of the outbreak — becomes the first presumptive case of the novel coronavirus in Canada. The man is placed in isolation in Toronto’s Sunnybrook Hospital.

March 8: Canada records its first death from COVID-19. A man in his 80s died in a North Vancouver nursing home. March 11: The World Health Organization declares COVID-19 a pandemic. Canada has more than 100 cases.

March 12: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau self-isolates after his wife Sophie Gregoire Trudeau tests positive for COVID-19.

The NHL and most other sports leagues suspend seasons. The Ontario government announces schools across the province will be closed for two weeks after March break.

March 18: Canada and the United States announce they will close their shared border to non-essential traffic. B.C. and Saskatchewan declare states of emergency.

March 30: Trudeau says a new wage subsidy program will cover all businesses whose revenue has dropped by at least 30 per cent because of COVID-19.

April 4: U.S. company 3M told by the White House to stop exporting N95 respirators to Canada.

April 9: Ottawa projects 4,400 to 44,000 Canadians could die of COVID-19. Government announces more than one million people lost their jobs in March.

April 13: Federal government announces nearly 5.4 million Canadians are receiving emergency aid.

April 15: Canada passes 1,000 virus-related deaths.

April 23: Canadian death toll passes 2,000 as country announces it will pour $1.1 billion into vaccine testing.

April 28: Canada hits 50,000 cases.

May 12: Death toll passes 5,000.

May 13: The country’s top doctor says Canadians in communities where COVID-19 is still spreading should wear nonmedical masks when they can’t stay physically distant from others.

May 26: A new report from the military helping battle COVID-19 in five long-term-care facilities in Ontario reveals extreme neglect and exposes the extent of the horrific conditions facing residents.

Sept. 8: Hundreds of thousands of children and teenagers across Canada re-enter classrooms for the first time in six months. Alberta and Quebec are among the first to report new cases of COVID-19 related to the reopening of schools. Sept. 23: In an address to the country, Trudeau says the second wave of COVID-19 is underway. He says families won’t likely be able to gather for Thanksgiving, but it is not too late to save Christmas.

Nov. 16: Canada’s COVID-19 case count tops 300,000.