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加拿大矿业大会PDAC, 每年三月份, 2到3万与会.
Latest coronavirus patient attended large Toronto mining conference, prompting warning to attendees
CARLY WEEKSHEALTH REPORTER
PUBLISHED MARCH 11, 2020UPDATED 15 MINUTES AGO
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Signs advise visitors to PDAC to help stop the spread of germs, as they head down to the convention floor on March 2, 2020.
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Ontario health officials are investigating how a man attending a major Toronto conference became infected with COVID-19 amid fears the case marks the start of local transmission of the virus in the province.
Public Health Sudbury and Districts, which posted details of the case online Tuesday evening, said a man in his 50s tested positive for COVID-19, the name of the disease caused by the coronavirus, after attending the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada’s conference in Toronto on March 2 and 3. According to organizers, the annual event attracts 25,000 attendees from more than 130 countries.
Anyone who attended the conference is now being asked to monitor themselves for symptoms, such as a fever or a cough, for the next 14 days, according to Penny Sutcliffe, medical officer of health for Public Health Sudbury and Districts.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Ontario Premier Doug Ford and a number of other provincial and federal cabinet ministers and business leaders attended the conference last week.
It’s unclear how or when the man became infected with the virus. He could have been exposed to it by an international traveler attending PDAC. Regardless, the case likely signals that community transmission of the virus has begun in Ontario, said Lucas Castellani, an infectious disease physician based in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. Community transmission refers to local spread of the virus not linked to any international travel.
“Overall, the implications are kind of the same,” Dr. Castellani said. “He would’ve gotten it or gotten in contact with someone who acquired it at the conference. By the time testing is done, he could have transmitted it to one or two other people now. It makes sense we’re further along in this community [transmission] chain than maybe we recognize.”
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Sudbury health officials are expected to provide an update about the case on Wednesday.
Sumon Chakrabarti, an infectious diseases specialist at Trillium Health Partners in Mississauga, said public health officials will be scrambling to determine who the Sudbury man came in contact with in order to reduce further spread of COVID-19. The fact the man likely contracted the virus at the conference also suggests more of a need to cancel large gatherings to reduce transmission, Dr. Chakrabarti said.
“I do think that we’re going to be seeing more and more of these [cancellations] in the coming days,” he said.
Dozens of people around the world have tested positive for COVID-19 after attending large conferences in recent weeks, including the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference in Washington, D.C. and last month’s RSA Conference in San Francisco. So far, 70 employees of biotechnology firm Biogen have tested positive for the virus after attending a company meeting in the Boston area.
B.C. officials confirmed Canada’s first case of community spread of COVID-19 last week, in a woman who works in a long-term care facility. The province has since declared an outbreak at the care home, where one resident has so far died. The province has also confirmed several other cases of community spread of the virus.
Meanwhile, a physician at a Hamilton cancer centre has tested positive for Covid-19 after returning from a trip abroad. The physician saw patients on the afternoon of March 9 at the Juravinski Cancer Centre, where she works as a radiation oncologist, before going to the emergency department of the Juravinksi Hospital to be tested.
The hospital said public health officials are now trying to contact all patients who were seen by the doctor on March 9. In a news release the hospital said the risk to those working in the hospital and those who had contact with the physician is low.
Those who came in contact with the physician have been told to self-isolate at home for 14 days. It was not immediately clear how many physicians and nurses would be affected.
加拿大矿业大会PDAC, 每年三月份, 2到3万与会.
Latest coronavirus patient attended large Toronto mining conference, prompting warning to attendees
CARLY WEEKSHEALTH REPORTER
PUBLISHED MARCH 11, 2020UPDATED 15 MINUTES AGO
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Signs advise visitors to PDAC to help stop the spread of germs, as they head down to the convention floor on March 2, 2020.
FRED LUM/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Ontario health officials are investigating how a man attending a major Toronto conference became infected with COVID-19 amid fears the case marks the start of local transmission of the virus in the province.
Public Health Sudbury and Districts, which posted details of the case online Tuesday evening, said a man in his 50s tested positive for COVID-19, the name of the disease caused by the coronavirus, after attending the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada’s conference in Toronto on March 2 and 3. According to organizers, the annual event attracts 25,000 attendees from more than 130 countries.
Anyone who attended the conference is now being asked to monitor themselves for symptoms, such as a fever or a cough, for the next 14 days, according to Penny Sutcliffe, medical officer of health for Public Health Sudbury and Districts.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Ontario Premier Doug Ford and a number of other provincial and federal cabinet ministers and business leaders attended the conference last week.
It’s unclear how or when the man became infected with the virus. He could have been exposed to it by an international traveler attending PDAC. Regardless, the case likely signals that community transmission of the virus has begun in Ontario, said Lucas Castellani, an infectious disease physician based in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. Community transmission refers to local spread of the virus not linked to any international travel.
“Overall, the implications are kind of the same,” Dr. Castellani said. “He would’ve gotten it or gotten in contact with someone who acquired it at the conference. By the time testing is done, he could have transmitted it to one or two other people now. It makes sense we’re further along in this community [transmission] chain than maybe we recognize.”
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What can I do to stay safe from COVID-19?
Sudbury health officials are expected to provide an update about the case on Wednesday.
Sumon Chakrabarti, an infectious diseases specialist at Trillium Health Partners in Mississauga, said public health officials will be scrambling to determine who the Sudbury man came in contact with in order to reduce further spread of COVID-19. The fact the man likely contracted the virus at the conference also suggests more of a need to cancel large gatherings to reduce transmission, Dr. Chakrabarti said.
“I do think that we’re going to be seeing more and more of these [cancellations] in the coming days,” he said.
Dozens of people around the world have tested positive for COVID-19 after attending large conferences in recent weeks, including the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference in Washington, D.C. and last month’s RSA Conference in San Francisco. So far, 70 employees of biotechnology firm Biogen have tested positive for the virus after attending a company meeting in the Boston area.
B.C. officials confirmed Canada’s first case of community spread of COVID-19 last week, in a woman who works in a long-term care facility. The province has since declared an outbreak at the care home, where one resident has so far died. The province has also confirmed several other cases of community spread of the virus.
Meanwhile, a physician at a Hamilton cancer centre has tested positive for Covid-19 after returning from a trip abroad. The physician saw patients on the afternoon of March 9 at the Juravinski Cancer Centre, where she works as a radiation oncologist, before going to the emergency department of the Juravinksi Hospital to be tested.
The hospital said public health officials are now trying to contact all patients who were seen by the doctor on March 9. In a news release the hospital said the risk to those working in the hospital and those who had contact with the physician is low.
Those who came in contact with the physician have been told to self-isolate at home for 14 days. It was not immediately clear how many physicians and nurses would be affected.
