COVID-19

People entering Canada from other parts of China should closely monitor themselves for symptoms

A new letter published by Science magazine suggests the researchers had not been in touch with the index patient prior to publishing their findings

There have now been 76 people whose tests have been confirmed as negative

Advances in social media and technology have offered some good, some bad and some ugly pockets of information

Discussed: Transmission patterns; city-wide quarantine as a public health experiment; China's invaluable contributions; the panic and conspiracies; understanding the unknowns

The federal government also announced that it has chartered a plane to evacuate 160 Canadians who've been trapped in China due to strict quarantine measures—but not all will be able to leave

The head of Ontario's Registered Nurses' Association says the panic seen during the 2003 SARS epidemic does not exist now

Primary care doctors are not expected to conduct testing for the new coronavirus, but they do have a duty to report cases that meet the criteria for PUI