The COVID-19 pandemic

[tomh009]

Do you have the dates? I didn't record the lockdown start/stop dates.

Me neither. I was going to say I remember the start but even that is only approximate.

Wikipedia to the rescue?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_p...in_Ontario

First state of emergency: 23 March 23 to 20 May
Second state of emergency: 14 January to 16 February (most of Ontario)

If we go with these dates, I have ...

• 29 March 2020: 78 cases, peaking at 640 on 24 April, and 413 on 20 Mayb
  
• 14 January 2021: 2,998 cases, peaking at 3,422 on 16 January, and currently down to 981
  

Based on these two, it looks like the second state of emergency was much more effective in bringing the number of new cases down -- it did have stronger restrictions. The first state of emergency was imposed early out of an abundance of caution but the restrictions were weak, and it actually finished with more daily cases than it started with.