Toronto Mayor John Tory reflected Monday on the announcement of Canada’s first COVID-19 case one year ago in Toronto, thanking frontline workers as well as the Toronto Public Health team for their work over the past year.

“We will never forget all of our frontline heroes,” he said, adding that the pandemic has required “tremendous sacrifice of all of our residents and so many of our businesses.”

“It’s been a year of hardship and sadly, a year of tragedy for many families," Tory said, stating that more than 2,000 Torontonians have died from COVD-19.

On Jan. 23, 2020, a 56-year-old man, who had just arrived back in the Toronto area from Wuhan, China, became Canada’s first case of COVID-19 — though the illness wasn’t yet called that, and it would take the medical team a few days to confirm it was indeed a case of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

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