COVID-19 pandemic in Yukon

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]

As of February 23, 2022, Yukon has reported 3,412 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with 3,351 recoveries and twenty deaths.^{[citation needed]}