“i don’t think we’re at the point that we need to be panicking , but i think it’s appropriate to foresee what may happen and to make sure we are well prepared,” said eric litvak, medical chief for infectious disease prevention and control for montreal’s public health department.
as of wednesday, there were 30 people under investigation for covid-19 in quebec, but no cases have been reported in the province to date . canada has had 11 confirmed cases, mostly mild, and no deaths.
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as of wednesday afternoon, there were 81,322 confirmed cases of covid-19 and 2,770 deaths worldwide, according to the centre for symptoms science and engineering department at johns hopkins university.
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