Thanks, Matt. That's great. Also within the federal family we're coordinating across several departments, we're working with the provinces and territories, and we're also engaging with the international community.
We're communicating—and this is engaging the provinces—regularly with all of our colleagues across the country, consulting experts, providing the latest information, and assembling the guidance, as I mentioned. I'm talking to the chief medical officers of health almost daily. There's a lot of angst across the land in terms of how best to report, what happens, etc. We're going on an ongoing basis. We've connected with front-line practitioners, specifically the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, the college of family practice, the pediatric society, etc.
As you can imagine, pregnant women who may be infected or are concerned they're infected have a very difficult decision to make. The CEO of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada—I've talked to her several times—says she thinks that lot of women will be deciding to terminate their pregnancies, and whether they have a positive lab or not, a lot of women are having a very difficult decision. If they aren't symptomatic and it is based on serology or antibodies, it's a very difficult test to interpret, so we're working very closely with front-line practitioners to assist them with that.
I've mentioned several federal departments. We're also connecting with Sport Canada; the Canadian Olympic Committee, specifically Dr. Bob McCormack, who is the chief medical officer of the Olympic Committee; and the Canadian Paralympic Committee to assist them in terms of making their decisions for their athletes.
Internationally, we're working with WHO, and also PAHO. Since this is in the Americas, PAHO is our main contact. We've been working very closely with them. As I mentioned earlier we're reporting cases to the International Health Regulations, to WHO, so they're aware of what's going on in Canada. The WHO has been looking for $56 million across the federal departments. We're looking at how we can best meet some of those needs.
In terms of how we can assist, some of the work the laboratory is doing.... We're considering assisting CARPHA, the Caribbean Public Health Agency. We've worked closely with CARPHA for many years now. In essence, it's several Caribbean countries that have come together to form one overarching organization to support them. We're looking at how best to support them.
I will stop there and pass it on to my colleagues.