Today marks one full year since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, and since that time a lot has been made about the numbers related to the virus.
COVID-19 began in the province with the number one: A single presumptive positive case announced by Dr. Janice Fitzgerald on March 14, 2020.
Since then, the province says 1,010 positive cases have been identified, and over 118,000 people have been tested across the four healthcare regions.
51 per cent of positive cases have been men, and 49 per cent have been women. Six people have passed away as a result of the virus.
Our highest single-day case count came on February 11 of this year, when 100 new cases were announced as a part of the cluster in the metro region.
According to Health Minister Dr. John Haggie, 140 live COVID briefings have been held in the last year.
Nine months after the province’s first case of the virus was reported, the first vaccines were administered, with registered nurse Ellen Foley-Vick receiving the first jab on December 16th.
As of this week, the province says they have received over 48,400 doses of three different types of vaccines. Over 33,000 doses have been administered, 24 000 of which have been the initial jab, while 9,000 secondary shots have been taken.