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.
I love my job, I love my kids and I was worried to death that something would happen to one of them, Noseworthy said through tears.
She had a test booked for Feb. 10, and the results were negative but Noseworthy and her fiancé followed public health recommendations to continue isolating as more cases at the school where she taught were being found. It was on Valentine s Day, the 14th, I started coughing a little bit and immediately took out my phone and put in for another COVID-19 test. I was tested on the 15th and this time it came back that I was COVID-19-positive, Noseworthy said.
While there's still no timeline for when in-class education will resume, following an outbreak of a coronavirus variant that put the province in Alert Level 5 lockdown, the provincial teachers' association hopes to get more information that will lead to stricter safety protocols in schools.
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The isolation and quarantine period for many people in that community is coming to an end this weekend and early next week, since cases related to the outbreak were identified beginning Feb. 7. Two days later, high schools in the metro region were closed for contact tracing and to identify additional COVID-19 cases.
In a later statement to CBC News, Eastern Health said additional testing will help identify people who had tests done before the incubation period was complete, and to ensure that potentially infectious students or staff do not contribute to community spread greater than what we have already seen. Students and staff were asked to quarantine from Feb. 7 until Feb. 21, the statement reads.