Canada's official guidance on the novel coronavirus has been to test patien...
TORONTO - Canada’s official guidance on the novel coronavirus has been to test patients who recently traveled to affected areas, but some doctors and hospitals have expanded testing on their own, finding the first in a series of patients linked to Iran before the scale of the Iranian outbreak was known.
One unlikely catch was British Columbia’s sixth patient, a woman in her 30s whose test results were announced on Feb. 20. She had recently traveled from Iran, but as the country had only disclosed its first cases on Feb. 19, she would not have been flagged under federal guidelines in use at the time.
The day after the case was found, Theresa Tam, Canada’s chief medical officer, told reporters “imported cases linked to Iran could be an indicator that there is more widespread transmission than we know about.”Every case that is caught can prevent a chain of new infections. Even so, on Thursday BC said it had what could be Canada’s first case of community spread. Canada has confirmed 45 cases by Friday.
Ontario has stuck with the federal government’s list of affected areas, but says clinicians can test other patients they feel are at risk.
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