Public health officials are awaiting confirmation after sending the patient’s sample to the National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg.
The patient is a woman in her 60’s who had recently been to Iran.
She arrived at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre’s emergency department Monday when she was discharged to her home where she remains in self-isolation.
A Toronto woman in her 20’s who returned from China last Friday is the other new infected patient.
Three other Ontario residents; a married Toronto couple and a young female university student in London have fully recovered from the coronavirus.
Seven other cases have been reported in B.C.
A Canadian scientist says countries are not ready for a global outbreak.
Dr. Bruce Aylward returned from a two week mission to China, urging countries to prepare for a potential outbreak as soon as possible.