Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks for the invitation to the discuss the Public Health Agency of Canada's relationship with China. A key focus of PHAC’s current relationship is of course in the context of the response to COVID-19.
In the case of COVID-19, the Public Health Agency became aware on December 30 at 10:30 p.m. that something was happening in Wuhan, via GPHIN, the global public health intelligence network that we run. For us, it was a big thing. This detection of an outbreak of pneumonia in Wuhan was distributed in our daily report the next morning, December 31, and supplementary monitoring started right away.