Health committee Right now what we're talking about in the messages we've put out is focusing on Hubei, because we know that as the numbers increase, the percentage of cases that are related to Hubei is still going up. That tells us that the transmission there is what is really driving this right
February 5th, 2020Committee meeting
Dr. Bonnie Henry
Health committee Sure. We have been working very closely with our colleagues across the country and have talked to Dr. de Villa and others and the Public Health Agency of Canada to try to have a coordinated approach to this. We are watching this very carefully, and we have stood up what we call o
February 5th, 2020Committee meeting
Dr. Bonnie Henry
Health committee Yes, and we are very cautious with details of personal health information, but there was no concern about anybody being symptomatic during travel.
February 5th, 2020Committee meeting
Dr. Bonnie Henry
Health committee There were visitors who arrived in Vancouver several weeks ago.
February 5th, 2020Committee meeting
Dr. Bonnie Henry
Health committee [Inaudible—Editor] visit from Wuhan, more than one. They all left Wuhan before the travel restrictions were put in place. None of them were symptomatic during travel.
February 5th, 2020Committee meeting
Dr. Bonnie Henry
Health committee That is not correct. I said they were asymptomatic when they travelled, and there was transmission within a household with very close contact. They became one person. A number of people travelled. One person who travelled developed symptoms and then there was transmission within
February 5th, 2020Committee meeting
Dr. Bonnie Henry
Health committee The person we've identified has not travelled. They got the infection from close contact with a person who developed symptoms while they were here, who had travelled from Wuhan.
February 5th, 2020Committee meeting
Dr. Bonnie Henry
Health committee Not at all.
February 5th, 2020Committee meeting
Dr. Bonnie Henry
Health committee That's one of the reasons why I was late coming here, because we've been doing press briefings about what people can do and what they don't need to do within our community. I spent the weekend talking with a lot of the ethnic media in Vancouver about the issues and risks here in
February 5th, 2020Committee meeting
Dr. Bonnie Henry
Health committee That is slightly nuanced. What we've said is that.... We know that during this very critical time there are people who have been in Hubei province, so not just Wuhan but the other cities where there is a lot of ongoing transmission. From watching what is happening and the evoluti
February 5th, 2020Committee meeting
Dr. Bonnie Henry