The country has halted travel and closed ports, but health workers said it could prevent the arrival of important medical supplies and volunteer doctors and nurses if the virus starts to spread inside the densely population nation of roughly 11 million people.

In the month following the earthquake, Canadians donated $220 million to eligible organizations, which was matched by the federal government. From 2010 to 2018, Canada contributed $1.458 billion.

Valour FC signed 27-year-old Haitian defender Andrew Jean-Baptiste on Tuesday.

Tens of thousands of children were orphaned when an earthquake struck Haiti in 2010, but one woman's efforts have helped to provide those young Haitians with a promising future.

More than one million people were displaced after an earthquake struck Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010. Global News journalist Valerie Laillet shares how temporary tent cities set up to house displaced residents are still there, 10 years later.

Franciscot Auguste, a young man from Haiti who was living in an orphanage a decade ago during a devastating earthquake, marked two significant moments in his life this week.

It's a grim anniversary, and for those, like Gaël Stephenson Clancy, who had to live through the Haiti earthquake, some memories are hard to get rid of.

Ten years later, she is forced to conclude that the massive humanitarian aid effort that followed was a missed opportunity and a ``failure for the international community.''

Global News is on the ground to mark 10 years since Jan. 12, 2010, when hundreds of thousands of lives were lost when a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti.

In 2016, while on a humanitarian mission in Haiti, Wong brought along some martial arts equipment to benefit schools in the town of Pignon.