Quebec’s first confirmed case of the novel coronavirus. Quebecers had been hearing for weeks about the mysterious new illness infecting thousands, first in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, and then in northern Italy and Iran.But when it first arrived on our shores, health officials urged calm.“The system has worked very well,” then-health minister Danielle McCann said of the health-care network’s ability to quickly identify and isolate the case.But one case soon grew to dozens, then hundreds, then thousands.
Over the course of the 10 months that would follow, the system that worked so well on Feb. 27 was put to a test it had never before encountered.