We hope you are having a good Saturday. As we heard yesterday 213 Canadians were evacuated from Wuhan and are being quarantined at CFB Trenton for 14 days, to protect themselves and others. We hear all is going well.

Happy Sunday! From what we hear, the Canadians repatriated from Wuhan and who are quarantined at CFB Trenton for 14 days (12 days remaining), are doing well and recovering at this time mainly from their jetlag. Let’s hope it remains this way and they can at the end of the quarantine go home and happily enjoy their families and friends.

The virus has infected 40, 325 and killed 909 persons, in China. Their authorities continue to restrict travel to contain the outbreak. The number of confirmed cases elsewhere is 319.

The World Health Organization has renamed 2019-nCoV, with the formal name of COVID-19. This name change will be reflected in future documents published by the ministry.

The Holland America Line cruise ship that was rejected from docking at five ports over fears of the coronavirus will be allowed to dock tomorrow, Thursday, in the port of Sihanoukville, Cambodia, where its passengers can finally disembark.

The Holland America Line cruise ship that was rejected from docking at five ports over fears of the coronavirus was allowed to dock today, Thursday, in the port of Sihanoukville, Cambodia.

Beyond Canada, there is currently a cruise ship in quarantine off the coast of Japan with a phased disembarkment in-progress. The ship has 12 Canadians with confirmed cases of COVID-19. Three are in a local hospital –two in stable condition and one in serious condition – who are keeping our hopes that all will recover well.

How can we lower the chance of future outbreaks of coronavirus? One of the links scientists are studying is climate change, reinforcing the demand to tackle climate change as a public health imperative.

We continue to hear that supplies disappear and that is a risk to all, should we need them. Please continue to remind colleagues that personal protective equipment (PPE) are to be used only when there is a need, as per the EOC guidelines.

As we shared yesterday, initial efforts to understand the behavior of the COVID-19 virus by researchers in Singapore suggest it is different from Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and has more similarities with H1N1. Like influenza, COVID-19 is infectious when symptoms are mild, the researchers found.