Theresa Tam, Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, seen here on Feb. 3, 2020, said that about 70 to 80 people from the Hubei area are arriving in Canada each day.Canada’s top health officials are debating whether to expand a new travel policy and ask anyone coming into the country from China to voluntarily quarantine themselves in order to reduce the risk of spreading the coronavirus.
“We’re weighing that, together with provinces and territories, on a very real-time basis,” Dr. Tam said on a conference call with reporters this week. “It is limiting someone’s movements, so we have to do that in a balanced way.” The ramping up of travel advisories in recent weeks suggests Canadian officials are growing more concerned about the possibility of human-to-human transmission of the virus, which the World Health Organization has warned poses a serious threat.
Canada’s policies don’t go as far as other countries, such as the United States, Japan and Australia, which have imposed total or partial travel bans on travellers coming from China. Evidence shows that closing borders may delay the spread of a virus, but won’t stop it. But officials need to proceed with caution, as quarantines impose economic, social and other strains on individuals and, if done incorrectly, can undermine trust in the health-care system. Dr. Kindrachuk, who was in Liberia during the Ebola outbreak, said government quarantines and other heavy-handed measures led to panic, fear and misinformation in the general public.
Didn’t know the Liberal gov’t was so racist! How dare they! 😂
Trudeau should personally shake the hand of every Chinese traveler as they get off the plane.
RACIST :p
this actually is racism. The canadians want all Chinese in their nations to die this is why they didnt quarantine and lock down the border.
but blackface Trudeau said it was racist to not let chinese people cough on you.
WHAT ABOUT THE TORONTO FOOD FESTIVAL?
Should've migrated to America. Oh well, too late now lol
Wait, I thought this type of stereotyping was racist... The Canadian press has been saying this for weeks now.
As an ashkenazi jew I find this behavior abhorrent and its beyond racist. Hitler had people self isolate as well. Right into concentration camps.
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