National Defence committee  Madam Chair, thank you for the question. We have adopted procedures to ensure that people are properly isolated and don't pick up threat vectors as they are about to embark on a mission like this. In spite of our best efforts, there was a concern that someone may have been in contact with a person with COVID-19 as they moved as a group towards the point of embarkation in the aircraft.

National Defence committee  The mission has since resumed.

National Defence committee  I will turn it over to Rear Admiral Patterson who can expand on this in a second. I would add that our contribution to those missions has continued and we've taken the necessary steps to ensure that we're not threat vectors in the areas where we perform our tasks. Admiral Patterson.

National Defence committee  Madam Chair and committee members, good afternoon. Thank you for the invitation to discuss the role that the Canadian Armed Forces has played in this whole-of-government response to the COVID-19 pandemic. As mentioned, I'm Major-General Dany Fortin. I'm currently the chief of staff of the Canadian Joint Operations Command, which oversees the execution of domestic and expeditionary operations.