Canada confirms first "presumptive" case of coronavirus

Source: Xinhua| 2020-01-26 07:43:59|Editor: Wang Yamei
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TORONTO, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- Canada confirmed its first "presumptive" case of the deadly coronavirus in Toronto Saturday evening.

A man in his 50s, who had traveled to the Chinese city of Wuhan, was found at Toronto's Sunnybrook Hospital.

Within a day of his return, the man became quite ill, Barbara Yaffe, director of Communicable Disease Control & Associate Medical Officer of Health for Toronto Public Health, told a press conference in Toronto.

The man is in stable condition, Yaffe said.

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