A year of COVID-19: Milestones and moments in an unforgettable year
On March 14, 2020, Newfoundland and Labrador reported what it knew was inevitable: its first case of COVID-19. We look back at 12 months like no other.
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12 months ago today, N.L. reported its first case of COVID-19. We look back at a year like no other
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Water Street in downtown St. John s was practically empty on the night of March 27 a Friday. (Paul Daly)
On March 14, 2020, Newfoundland and Labrador reported its first case of COVID-19. It triggered a mighty sequence of events that might have felt like a ton of bricks, dropping from nowhere: within a week, the province was in lockdown.
Four-year-old Emmy Laine missed seeing Calvin Young at the grocery story checkout, so she and her parents wrote him a sign and posted it on social media, hoping he would see it and know she was thinking of him.