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COVID-19 kills more than SARS in 2003

It’s a grim milestone in Canada.

COVID-19 has killed more people than the SARS epidemic.

In 2003 during SARS, 44 people died in a six-month span but 53 people have already died in just two months.  That’s when COVID-19 was first reported in Canada.

The strain of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is much more contagious than the strain that causes SARS.

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