TRENTON, Ontario: Two planes carrying a total of 215 Canadian evacuees from the epicentre of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak in Wuhan, China landed at an air force base in Ontario on Friday and Canada’s health minister said none showed any symptoms of the illness. One evacuee, Edward Wang, was promised a seat on the US plane along with his mother, also a Canadian citizen. He was eager to be back in Canada and nervous about the lack of hospital beds in Wuhan. Canada was hit hard by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), another coronavirus, and health authorities are working to contain the new virus. The government has told citizens not to travel to Hubei province, and to avoid non-essential travel to the rest of China.

Source: New Strait Times February 08, 2020 01:52 UTC