TORONTO — A man in his 50s who travelled to Toronto from China earlier this week has become the first Canadian case of the new coronavirus, health officials said Saturday as they urged calm in the face of an international outbreak. Toronto Mayor John Tory stressed in a statement following news of the city’s first coronavirus case that health officials have made it clear the risk continues to remain low. My statement on the first presumptive confirmed case of coronavirus. The World Health Organization has counted nearly 2,500 cases in the Middle East and beyond, and more than 850 deaths. Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre is caring for a patient who has a confirmed case of the novel coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China.

Source: Huffington Post January 25, 2020 23:05 UTC