WHO concerned about new cases of COVID-19 not linked to China
Posted Feb 21, 2020 11:36 am.
Last Updated Mar 11, 2020 3:20 pm.
(NEWS 1130) – The World Health Organization admits it’s concerned about new cases of COVID-19 that don’t have any clear or direct links to travel to China or other people with the virus.
This comes as BC’s top doctor confirmed yesterday a woman in her 30s is this province’s latest patient after she returned from Iran recently.
The WHO says a huge caseload in South Korea is showing the ease with which the new coronavirus can spread and it wants something to be done to help stop that from happening.
Around the world, more than 76,000 people have been infected in 27 countries, and more than 2,200 have died.
On Thursday, B.C. health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said a woman in her 30s has been diagnosed with COVID-19 after returning from Iran.
The woman’s case is relatively mild, she added, and a number of her close contacts have already been put in isolation.
This brings the number of cases of COVID-19 in B.C. to six.
Henry said earlier in the week that four of the five people already diagnosed with the virus were symptom free.
The fifth person, a woman in her 30s who returned from Shanghai, China, is in isolation at her home in B.C.’s Interior.
More than 500 people have been tested for the virus in B.C. and many of those tested positive for the flu.
Three cases of the virus have also been confirmed in Ontario.
– The Canadian Press
