The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached the French overseas collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon on 5 April 2020.

Earlier, ferry service[2] between Newfoundland and Saint Pierre and Miquelon had been suspended.

[5] On 12 January 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that a novel coronavirus was the cause of a respiratory illness in a cluster of people in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, which was reported to the WHO on 31 December 2019.

[12] On 4 May, it was reported that the more than 270 students stranded in metropolitan France and Canada would return to Saint Pierre and Miquelon from 12 May onward.

The islands had been declared Covid-free in February, and requested inclusion in Canada's Atlantic Bubble, although this was not successful.