Theresa Tam, Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, said that some provinces, particularly B.C. and Ontario, are starting to test a wider sample of the population to detect possible community spread of the virus, including those who go to the hospital with flu-like symptoms even if they haven’t travelled outside of Canada recently.B.C.
“Every day we’re adding new countries,” Dr. McCready said. “It’s impossible and it’s also not practical to keep doing that. You’re going to miss cases.” Dr. Tam said officials are sending the message that any international travellers arriving in Canada should be aware of the virus and monitor themselves for signs of illness, such as fever or cough.
“I don’t really understand why we wouldn’t be sharing that information as rapidly and broadly as possible,” she said.
Kicked the PC can down the road right into Canadians laps. This ought to be good....... Next out of their mouths , it only really affects old people....... so don't worry.
It was inevitable 2 mos ago, but told we are supposed to trust them, Canada was fine, they learned from the SARs outbreak. These useless asshats learned nothing from SARs and Corona virus....YES Corona virus from China is now a global pandemic, but don't admit that either!
some of the things she said are very biased
So why is there still an average of 12 flights a day coming in from China to Vancouver? Look at how proud they are of this
With ZERO travel bans on incoming flights and Medical professionals more concerned with not being seen as racist than preventing WuhanCoronavius it was only a matter of time
God help you lady if anything happens to my family. I will hold you personally responsible!!!!!
They have done NOTHING to protect us from this virus. Nothing.
Travel bans in a 100. % that’s the only way
Baby girl 😘
Do you think Tam? Maybe doing nothing at ports of entry and calling Canadians racist is not a viable plan to stop a pandemic. Who knew?
So they failed at there job... you had one job. Keep Canadian citizens safe... fsiled
She should be fired
'On Monday, the Public Health Agency of Canada announced that all Canadians should avoid non-essential travel to Iran.' Oh crap, I have to cancel my spring break vacation in Iran! 😭
Everyone who has been paying attention already knew that the corona virus was going to breakout in Canada over a month ago. Canada's Liberal government, officials, sat on their hands and Canadians were told not to worry, it's under control, and given racism lectures instead.
You can’t see what you don’t measure.
It’s the Obamavirus, not Coronavirus.
We went from near-zero risk to inevitable in under a month. No credibility
most figured that out weeks ago, liberal gvt are going to pay dearly for there incompetence on mishandling of Coronavirus
They did nothing to protect our borders. People can’t even get in to see a doctor in BC due to overcrowding. How do they expect to deal with the “inevitable” transmission of this virus?
It doesn't help though if Cda is only today doing more thorough screening of ppl coming back from Iran. That should have happened at least a week ago or more.
With little screening and no travels bans it’s likely to get much worse. On the bright side I’m probably save lots of money staying home.
What At least you could try something to prevent it from being transmitted, right? Restricting the entry of people from China, Iran, Italy.
thought she said the risk was low? I knew it was coming to this over a month ago.... What a fool she is. FIRE HER
They could buy more time (about 3 months) by imposing travel bans but they didn't.
Didn’t anyone learn from Wuhan? Italy? Iran?
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