Okay. Thank you.
There are three key points. First, the government operations centre was activated on January 23, 2020. The activation was carried out progressively, from level 1 to level 3. We moved to level 3 on February 2.
Second, the departments were already working together when the centre was activated, both at the Public Health Agency of Canada and at Health Canada.
Third, we needed to coordinate the response to ensure that it was based on science. To that end, our ongoing and consistent interactions with our colleagues at Health Canada and the Public Health Agency enabled us to engage the departments and agencies, while we turned our attention to public health notices.