COVID-19 in Niagara web archives collection, 2020-2023, n.d.
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The collection consists of a weekly crawl of websites of major institutions, governments and organizations in the Niagara area focusing on the varied responses to the COVID-19 pandemic from 2020 to 2023. Further, one-time crawls of newspaper articles focused on Niagara centric COVID-19 news were collected and exist in a private collection.
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The COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 resulted in a dramatic change to everyday life. Many of these changes were reflected in the operational practices of various Niagara governments, organizations and institutions. The websites of these groups provide a record of the varied responses to the pandemic.
The news articles captured in this archive reflect some of the issues and events in the Niagara Region during the pandemic. This includes topics such as face masks; vaccination; advice and updates from Niagara Region’s Medical Officer of Health and the public’s response; closure of the Canada-U.S. border for non-essential travel; the impact on local nursing homes and frontline workers; and the impact on businesses, tourism, local schools and post-secondary institutions.