Canada, U.S., Australia prepare to quarantine hundreds of evacuees from Wuhan, epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak
later found that community quarantine – defined as people who may have been exposed to a pathogen confining themselves at home when they’re not symptomatic – reduced the spread of SARS.Some experts say that quarantines are more likely to slow down outbreaks than stop them, especially if victims can spread the virus before they fall seriously ill, something that still isn’t clear when it comes to the new coronavirus, known as 2019-nCoV.
Still, a senior official with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention argued on Wednesday the novel coronavirus outbreak is different from previous outbreaks, such as the 2009 pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza virus, because this time public-health leaders outside China knew the virus was coming.
Canada is planning to house its evacuees in individual rooms at the Yukon Lodge, a motel on the grounds of CFB Trenton. To date, Canada has had five cases of the novel coronavirus, with no deaths. “The arrival of the food trays is a big moment of the day,” she wrote in an e-mail to The Globe and Mail. “It’s fascinating how days ago they were pumping out 5,000 gourmet meals three times a day and suddenly they are having trouble producing a sandwich.”
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