The risk remains low for Canadians when it comes to catching the coronavirus.
Health Minister Patty Hajdu stresses preventative screening systems are working well in our country.
Canada has had seven cases of coronavirus, now known as COVID 19, and Hajdu notes all of the cases have recovered or have been cleared of the virus.
Hajdu says the government is “very comfortable with the processes that we are using to ensure that people know what the symptoms are.”
The Thunder Bay-Superior North MP adds she is disappointed the Canadian Chinese community has become targeted by misinformation over worries the virus originated in China.
Hajdu says one of the sad facts of a pandemic outbreak is that often they exhibit themselves first in a population in a foreign country.
“Sometimes that ends up racializing that particular outbreak and we saw this in SARS, especially in Toronto and the Chinese Canadian community felt the significant impacts of discrimination and fear.”
Hajdu reminds the public the disease has been found in all parts of the world and we should not let these types of situations divide us as Canadians.
