Foreign Affairs Minister Champagne said the Chinese government will only allow Canadian citizens travelling on Canadian passports to board the plane, as long as they are symptom-free
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during question period in the House of Commons, in Ottawa, on Feb. 3, 2020.Canadians and others requesting evacuation from Wuhan, the locked-down epicentre of the growing coronavirus outbreak, face the prospect of being denied boarding and separated from family members because of rules imposed by the Chinese government.
A total of 308 individuals have requested Canada’s help in being evacuated, but only 280 are carrying Canadian passports. The Canadian charter plane only seats 250, which is also raising questions about whether a second charter will be needed to evacuate everyone. “It is my hope that my husband should be out of the hospital soon – in six or seven days,” she said. “Then if my daughter’s temperature gets back to normal in the same time, then they should both be cleared to get on the second plane.”
The case is deemed “presumptive-confirmed”; while testing in B.C. came back positive, the sample must still be sent to the national laboratory in Winnipeg for official confirmation. “So we weren’t actually thinking that we had the demand that we did,” Ms. Hajdu said on Parliament Hill.Story continues below advertisement
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