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Coronavirus: looking back on how Quebec responded to COVID-19 in 2020 – Global News
On the day Quebecers are preparing to bid farewell to a year many would rather forget, 8,226 Quebecers have perished from COVID-19.
On Feb. 27, a woman returning to Montreal from Iran became Quebec’s first confirmed case of the novel coronavirus. Quebecers had been hearing for weeks about the mysterious new illness infecting thousands, first in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, and then in northern Italy and Iran.
But when it first arrived on our shores, health officials urged calm.
“The system has worked very well,” then-health minister Danielle McCann said of the health-care network’s ability to quickly identify and isolate…
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