Travel prompted by the upcoming Chinese New Year could bring the coronavirus to Canada.
Headwaters Health Care Centre is tracking trends in case of any viral activity nearby, in which case, it’ll update protocol procedures.
Director of Quality Improvement, Planning & Performance at HHCC, Sandy Critchley says the hospital’s medical teams have received memos about how to care for patients with suspected or confirmed coronavirus.
However, she admits chances of local outbreaks are low.
The virus outbreak is believed to originate in Wuhan, China and China has confirmed it can be spread from human to human, but Canadian doctors still don’t know how or what causes it.
There have been no confirmed cases in Canada.