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Top Canadian health officials say they are going to start actively looking for COVID-19 cases in communities, as mounting evidence suggests that the new coronavirus will soon start spreading more freely in Canada.
“We are actively having conversations right now with provinces and territories on some of the next steps,” Theresa Tam, Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, said on Thursday. Officials didn’t offer a timeline for when the new surveillance systems will be activated, but infectious-disease experts say they are urgently needed.
originally posted by: violet
This doesn’t say how it will be done.I assume it means testing for COVID-19 when people go to the doctors with Flu symptoms, or at least asking more questions on how they got the illness. Currently I don’t think that’s being done, it’s just assumed you have a flu bug and bye-bye.
Top Canadian health officials say they are going to start actively looking for COVID-19 cases in communities, as mounting evidence suggests that the new coronavirus will soon start spreading more freely in Canada.
“We are actively having conversations right now with provinces and territories on some of the next steps,” Theresa Tam, Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, said on Thursday. Officials didn’t offer a timeline for when the new surveillance systems will be activated, but infectious-disease experts say they are urgently needed.
Globe and Mail
If the virus becomes an epidemic, health officials say they will treat it like seasonal flu