COVID-19 pandemic in Yukon | |
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Disease | COVID-19 |
Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
First outbreak | Wuhan, Hubei, China |
Index case | Whitehorse |
Arrival date | March 22, 2020 (4 years, 4 months and 4 weeks) |
Date | October 24, 2022 |
Confirmed cases | 4,946 |
Active cases | 16 |
Hospitalized cases | 0 |
Recovered | 4,906 |
Deaths | 32 |
Fatality rate | 0.65% |
Government website | |
Yukon Government |
The COVID-19 pandemic in Yukon is part of an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).
On March 22, 2020, Premier Sandy Silver and the Chief Medical Officer, Brendan Hanley, announced that Yukon had its first cases of coronavirus, a couple who had attended a convention in the United States and then returned home to Whitehorse. They developed symptoms upon their return and immediately sought medical assistance. They have self-isolated and have meticulously followed all public health directions.[1] During the pandemic, the territory opened its first public university in the north, Yukon University.[2]