COVID-19 pandemic in Prince Edward Island | |
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Disease | COVID-19 |
Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
First outbreak | Wuhan, Hubei, China |
Index case | Queens County |
Arrival date | March 14, 2020 (4 years, 2 months, 2 weeks and 5 days) |
Confirmed cases | 52,047 |
Active cases | 320 - As of 6 October 2022[update] |
Hospitalized cases | 289 (to date) |
Recovered | 51,665 |
Deaths | 62 |
Fatality rate | 0.11% |
Government website | |
PEIs COVID-19 Testing and Case Data |
The COVID-19 pandemic in Prince Edward Island 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). Up until January 14, 2022, Prince Edward Island was the only province/territory that did not have any deaths due to COVID-19.
On March 14, 2020, the first confirmed case in Prince Edward Island was announced, a woman in her 50s who had returned from a trip on a cruise ship on March 7.[1]
An initial small surge in cases at the start of 2020 eventually petered out to zero active cases by May 2020.[2] The province began to open up that summer, resulting in another small uptick in active cases, with no deaths. By the close of 2020, PEI withdrew from the Atlantic Bubble and eased some restrictions, resulting in a slow but steady rise in active cases. By May 2021, the island recorded its 200th confirmed case of infection. In December 2021, PEI was breaking its own daily records of confirmed infections, with active cases surpassing the 1000 mark by early January 2022. No Islander had yet lost their lives to the pandemic and PEI remained the only Canadian province with no known COVID-19 fatalities. However, on January 14, 2022, the first deaths related to COVID-19 in Prince Edward Island were reported, with fatalities rising sharply throughout the year. Despite the rising fatality rate, many health restrictions were abandoned in favor of bolstering the local economy. By the start of the 2022 tourist season, masking, social distancing, testing mandates and vaccine passports were eliminated.
As of October 4, 2022, Prince Edward Island has reported 52,047 confirmed cases of the virus and 62 deaths.[3]
This section is missing information about cases. Government count of positive cases goes from 3 on March 22 to 9 by March 26, even though only 4 new cases were announced. Does anyone have any info on the 2 unaccounted for cases?. Please expand the section to include this information. Further details may exist on the talk page. (October 2022)
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This section is missing information about case numbers. Counting the government-announced COVID-19 cases, if you include the 2 cases announced on Sept 3rd, that only gives us 40 positive cases, although PEI gov says the total is 46 at the time. Also, government data jumps from a total of "55 positive cases" in Sept. 9th to "58 positive cases" in Sept. 23rd, even though only one new case was reported. I cannot find mention of the unaccounted for cases. Please expand the section to include this information. Further details may exist on the talk page. (October 2022)
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Cases remained relatively low throughout the Summer and Fall months. However, in late-December 2021, Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.) began to experience a surge in COVID-19 cases, primarily caused by the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant. Prince Edward Island's caseload quickly accelerated, and the province surpassed 1,000 confirmed cases on December 29, 2021, when health officials reported 129 new cases;[96] a record-breaking, single-day increase in cases. This record was broken again on December 30, 2021, when officials reported 169 new cases,[97] and on December 31, 2021, with 175 new cases.[98]
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