B.C. woman diagnosed with COVID-19 after returning from Iran

Vancouver Sun ^ | February 20, 2020

[nuconvert]

Another case of the coronavirus has been diagnosed in British Columbia.

The provincial health officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry, says a woman in her 30s has been diagnosed with COVID-19 after returning this week from Iran. The woman lives in the Fraser Health region.

“Our continued view is that the risk to B.C. is low, we are acting with vigilance,” she said.

Henry said staff were surprised by a new case linked to Iran, which only recently reported it had five cases of COVID-19 and two deaths.

“That could be an indicator that there’s more widespread transmission. This is what we call an indicator or sentinel event,” Henry said during a Thursday news conference.

“That triggered interest from people around the world,” Henry said. “I expect there will be an investigation to determine where the exposure occurred.”

Iran has reported at least 20 other people in various areas who are being tested, Henry said. “And we’ll be linking with them to see where this person had been in Iran — we’re tracing her travel all the way back to Iran.”

Henry says the woman’s case is relatively mild and a number of her close contacts are in isolation.

B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix said the patient’s samples have been sent to the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, Man., for final confirmation.

This brings the number of cases of COVID-19 in B.C. to six.

“So far in B.C. all of our cases have been relatively mild and managed mostly at home,” she said.

Henry said earlier that four of the five people diagnosed with the virus were symptom free.

The fifth person, a woman in her 30s who returned from Shanghai, China, is in isolation at her home in B.C.’s Interior.

Henry said over 500 people have been tested for the virus in B.C. and many of those tested positive for the flu.

“We’re in containment,” she explained, adding that because many cases are mild, the virus can apparently be transmitted when people have few symptoms.

“It makes it very difficult to contain the virus. We’re not out of the woods yet.”

Three cases of the virus have also been confirmed in Ontario.

As of Thursday, the World Health Organization said there were 75,748 confirmed cases globally, with 548 new cases reported in the past 24 hours. The majority of those cases are in China, with 2,121 deaths recorded to date in the country.

Outside of China, there have been eight deaths across 26 countries. In Canada, there have only been eight cases to date, with only one case being transmitted outside of China. There have been no deaths due to COVID-19 in Canada

[nuconvert]

This article doesn't point out an important fact...that this woman never went to China or the surrounding countries, just Iran.

[cherry]

here's the thing....how many people have had this virus and got over it and never had testing....for all we know this virus has been around us for some time....

I take everything seriously but we have to use some common sense too...

try to stay healthy....drink lots of fluids not just when your sick ...get your rest....take your vitamins ...and avoid huge coughing, smoking, hacking crowds....we'll live....

[chris37]

It’s moving quickly, and how on earth did it get there?!

[VanShuyten]

“... Iran, which only recently reported it had five cases of COVID-19 and two deaths.”

I guess Iranians lie as much as the Chicoms. Given the average deaths per cases in the second world, Iran has around 70 cases.

[nuconvert]

yup. The Iranian regime isn’t known for truth telling.

[highpockets]

Lots of Iranian oil going to China

[GOPmember]

B.C. woman?

I thought this article was going to be about Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

[thoughtomator]

I don’t trust any of the info I’m seeing on this virus.

Whose word am I taking that this person did not go to China? Was she in contact with Chinese when in Iran? What was she doing there?

[dp0622]

And since some of you LOVE to be scared or maybe get excited by the End of the World or whatever insanity makes you WANT this to be big...you don’t read this part:

“So far in B.C. all of our cases have been relatively mild and managed mostly at home,” she said.

[existentially_kuffer]

If it ever got out this virus from came a Halal process operation, with a Mullah certifing it.

[null and void]

“So far in B.C. all of our cases have been relatively mild and managed mostly at home,” she said.

SO FAR.

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[mewzilla]

China...Iran...

Now I am starting to wonder about biowarfare.

[null and void]

Johns Hopkins site just went down

[null and void]

Now I am starting to wonder about biowarfare.

Welcome to the party, pal....

[BobL]

“here’s the thing....how many people have had this virus and got over it and never had testing....for all we know this virus has been around us for some time....”

Agree - now Iran has 18 cases, looks like this thing will pop up wherever it feels like.

[mewzilla]

Only if I get to wear my biohazard suit. :-(

[nuconvert]

“Whose word am I taking that this person did not go to China?”

Her’s, according to the report.

“Was she in contact with Chinese when in Iran? What was she doing there?”

I’m sure they asked her that & the report says they’re in contact with her family in Iran.