Health committee  I'm not. I don't think I can be absolutely certain about that. It sounds like the U.K. may be doing something like that, but—

Health committee  I think each individual country does have some variation.

Health committee  We know that entry screening—into Canada, for example—can never be 100% in terms of stopping any.... This is a virus. It can cross borders. This is a layer of a multi-layered response. The most important layer, of course, is the initial entry into the health system. We've talke

Health committee  We're not doing that, yes.

Health committee  I think there are models that have been done in terms of flight paths and the numbers over January to March from Wuhan, for instance, so we have those numbers, but Canada's risk is much, much lower than that of many countries. It's going to be rare, but we are expecting cases. It

Health committee  Just to add to what the president said, obviously the front line of all the health facilities is a very critical point for assessment. Based on what all the provinces and territories are doing, they have a very low threshold at the moment for looking for anyone, not just from Hub

Health committee  The situation is continuing to evolve in terms of what's happening in China. I just want to underline that the risk in Canada is low. We have very few cases. The chains of interaction have been contained. It's not spreading in Canada. Really, out of an abundance of caution, whil

Health committee  I just want to add that, on the question of Vancouver, the idea is that no passengers get off in Vancouver, unless there's an emergency—if someone had a heart attack or there were other issues. The British Columbian teams are already rehearsing, if there's an emergency, to safe

Health committee  I'll respond to that question. Obviously, in British Columbia, the health officials and the local public health unit in charge of that particular investigation have been in very close contact with the Public Health Agency. As I understand it, the potential transmission occurred

Health committee  We are aware of a very small number of case reports in which it's suspected that asymptomatic transmission may have occurred, but these have not been verified. In fact, with regard to the New England Journal study, there's now been a publication to say that it was incorrect and t

Health committee  It's actually a very evolving proportion, because, as you can imagine, at the beginning of any outbreak, it is the people who have the most severe symptoms who present. Many of the teams in China are currently unpacking the mild symptoms that are the underside of the iceberg, if

Health committee  As the president of the agency just stated, the World Health Organization declared this “a public health emergency of international concern” and indicated that right now we are in the containment phase. The most effective piece of containment, of course, is at source, in China it

Health committee  There is a network of laboratories called the Canadian Public Health Laboratory Network. These are mainly provincial laboratories, public-held laboratories. Some of them can test for the coronavirus, but not all. The ones that can are in Ontario and British Columbia, but because

Health committee  I think one of the members asked about travel bans, stopping people from actually travelling. The reason the World Health Organization doesn't recommend something like this is that, in general, it may do more harm than good. I think someone mentioned what the United States was

Health committee  The international construct is that the Chinese authorities have been providing data, and in quite a lot of detail, to—