It’s been just over one month since the first case of COVID-19 was recorded in Alberta and a lot has changed. Schools have closed, businesses have shuttered, thousands have been laid off and the daily lives of Albertans are nowhere near the same as they were a month ago.
So what has changed? Here’s a look back. Alberta’s chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw announced the province’s first case of the novel coronavirus on Thursday, March 5 in a woman in her 50s from the Calgary area.
One day later, Hinshaw announced the province’s second case of COVID-19, in a man in his 40s in the Edmonton area. On Saturday, March 14, the City of Edmonton announced it would close all city-run rec centres, arenas and other facilities like the