0:59Shutting down spring breakIn mid-March, with cases of COVID-19 rising rapidly and with outbreaks in multiple long-term care homes, it appeared that B.C. recorded Canada's first COVID-19 death on March 8 — at the Lynn Valley Care Centre in North Vancouver. The seniors home was the site of Canada's first death from COVID-19 on March 8. (Ben Nelms/CBC)"Part of it was timing, part of it was luck, and part of it was embracing what we needed to do and doing it together," said Dr. Bonnie Henry, B.C. Unlike in Quebec, where spring break came at the start of the month, when school let out in B.C., health officials were already advising Canadians to cancel all non-essential trips out of the country.

Source: CBC News June 22, 2020 07:52 UTC