In measured tones, B.C.'s health officer Bonnie Henry explained that the man, in his 40s, had returned to Vancouver last week from China and showed no symptoms but self-monitored out of an abundance of caution
The man’s case is still considered a “presumptive positive” pending confirmation from the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, “but given the history of travel, the contact that this person had in Wuhan city, and the symptoms they were showing, we are confident that this is truly a case of this novel coronavirus,” Dr. Henry said.
“When we look at the now close to 60 cases in other countries around the world, there’s no evidence that we have from extensive contact tracing that we do in public health, and follow-up with people who have been in contact with people, there’s no evidence of asymptomatic [transmission],” she said. Reporter Xiao Xu spoke to Canadians whose relatives travelled home to Wuhan to celebrate the Lunar New Year after heeding early Chinese assurances that there was “no clear evidence” of person-to-person transmission of the disease. Now,as the Chinese government suspends all air travel and locks down the city.
Holiday travellers are among 250 Canadians in Hubei province who have registered with Global Affairs in China. Foreign Affairs Minister François-Philippe Champagne said Tuesday 126 of them have asked for assistance, but he declined to commit to arranging for them to be evacuated.
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