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Canada has learned from SARS, but hospital capacity still a worry if COVID-19 outbreak occurs
Laura Osman The Canadian Press
Published Saturday, February 22, 2020 12:39PM PST
OTTAWA -- Canadian medical experts say the country's already overstretched emergency rooms would find it difficult to cope if a true outbreak of the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, were to take hold in Canada.
So far, the virus has been relatively contained to mainland China, thanks in part to one of the largest quarantines in modern history.
“We must not look back and regret that we failed to take advantage of the window of opportunity that we have now,” Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization, said in a message to all the world's countries Friday...
Canada has learned from SARS, but hospital capacity still a worry if COVID-19 outbreak occurs
Laura Osman The Canadian Press
Published Saturday, February 22, 2020 12:39PM PST
OTTAWA -- Canadian medical experts say the country's already overstretched emergency rooms would find it difficult to cope if a true outbreak of the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, were to take hold in Canada.
So far, the virus has been relatively contained to mainland China, thanks in part to one of the largest quarantines in modern history.
“We must not look back and regret that we failed to take advantage of the window of opportunity that we have now,” Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization, said in a message to all the world's countries Friday...