{"id":29124,"date":"2020-03-09T08:01:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T12:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=29124"},"modified":"2020-08-17T09:46:43","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T13:46:43","slug":"ontario-confirms-new-positive-cases-of-covid-19-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/09\/ontario-confirms-new-positive-cases-of-covid-19-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario Confirms New Positive Cases of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, March 8th, in the afternoon, Dr. David Williams, Chief Medical Officer of Health, confirmed that there are two more positive cases of COVID-19 in Ontario. There are now 31 confirmed cases, with four of them resolved &#8211; \u00a0with each of those patients having two consecutive negative tests at least 24 hours apart.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A female in her 60s returned from France on March 2, 2020 and presented herself to Scarborough Health Network &#8211; General Site&#8217;s emergency department, in Toronto, on March 7.<\/li>\n<li>A male in his 60s returned from Washington, D.C. on March 3, 2020 and presented himself to North York General Hospital&#8217;s emergency department, also in Toronto, on March 7.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All precautions were taken, testing and assessment, with the patients being discharged to self-isolation. Toronto Public Health is actively engaged in contact tracing and case management.<\/p>\n<p>Officials state that at this time, the virus is not circulating locally.\u00a0There are 31 cases of COVID-19 in Ontario, 27 in B.C., two in Quebec and one in Alberta.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/links.bellmedia-ctv.mkt4301.com\/ctt?kn=4&amp;ms=MzE4OTk4OTcS1&amp;r=MjQyMjY4MzY1MTQS1&amp;b=0&amp;j=MTY2MzUyODc2OQS2&amp;mt=1&amp;rt=0\" href=\"http:\/\/links.bellmedia-ctv.mkt4301.com\/ctt?kn=4&amp;ms=MzE4OTk4OTcS1&amp;r=MjQyMjY4MzY1MTQS1&amp;b=0&amp;j=MTY2MzUyODc2OQS2&amp;mt=1&amp;rt=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" name=\"link_5TTK_1\">Grand Princess cruise<\/a><br \/>\nThe federal government is chartering a plane to repatriate Canadians on board a cruise ship that is being held off the coast of California because of an outbreak of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Canadians onboard the Grand Princess cruise ship are expected to be repatriated to Canadian Forces Base Trenton where they will undergo a 14-day quarantine process.<\/p>\n<p>For more details, readers are encouraged to contact their local Public Health Unit and visit Ontario&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontario.ca\/page\/2019-novel-coronavirus\">website<\/a>\u00a0to learn more about how the province continues to protect Ontarians from COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, March 8th, in the afternoon, Dr. David Williams, Chief Medical Officer of Health, confirmed that there are two more positive cases of COVID-19 in Ontario. There are now 31 confirmed cases, with four of them resolved &#8211; \u00a0with each of those patients having two consecutive negative tests at least 24 hours apart. A female &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[2285],"class_list":["post-29124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-provincial","tag-wuhan-novel-coronavirus"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 04:26:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29124"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29128,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29124\/revisions\/29128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}