Timeline: A year of pandemic life in Toronto
by Michael Ranger
Last Updated Mar 11, 2021 at 1:29 pm EDT
The signs in Yonge Dundas Square show COVID-19 messaging during the COVID-19 pandemic as only essential industries are open as the province shut down non-essential services and industries to help slow the spread of COVID-19 in Toronto. March 30, 2020. (Steve Russell/via Getty Images)
It has been exactly one year since the World Health Organization declared the spread of COVID-19 a global pandemic.
Later that same day the NBA was forced stop all of their games when they discovered a player had tested positive right before tipoff, the sports world came to a screeching halt.