Global National: March 14, 2020 | New cases surface in Canada; Trump travel ban expands
New cases of COVID-19 have surfaced in Canada, with Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador reporting their first positive cases and Saskatchewan confirming its first two cases. Ontario reported 22 new cases on Saturday as well, with Quebec’s total rising to 24 after seven cases were confirmed.
Abigail Bimman reports on the new developments with Canadian travelers being urged to come home as soon as they can. Plus, Mike Armstrong looks at new risks that Canada’s already vulnerable homeless population faces amid the growing outbreak.
In the U.S., Jennifer Johnson takes a look at how the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing lawmakers to come up with strategies to help Americans, with an emergency bill passed early Saturday to help with free testing and paid sick leave. Robin Gill also takes a look at Apple’s decision to close all of its stores outside China in an effort to limit the virus’ spread.
Multiple countries around the world are now taking immediate countermeasures in an effort to contain and mitigate the spread. Redmond Shannon reports on the increasingly dire situation in Europe, now seen as the epicentre of the outbreak, as Spain prepares a 15-day national lockdown. Plus, Robin Gill provides new updates on the pandemic’s impact across the globe, including Japan and Iran.
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Why aren’t we temporarily restricting travel from Europe like so many other countries?
Drea D I thought it was a joke but the resemblance is striking. Look up a pic of a young clean shaven Castro, JT looks a helluva lot more like him than PET.
you have to let in more refugees … millions more coming from Syria – EU must absorb all of them and give them homes and cars and health care.
All countries have to take in millions of refugees from the Middle East, and give them everything they need. This is what the leaders say to do.
Because we’re in Justin’s sandbox apparently, and he dictates the rules.
The Art of GNAR his step dad was a loon, he gave half of Canada the finger.
@Paulie’s Walnutz resemblance? Spitting image.
They need to close casinos. Don’t be greedy, do the right thing!
So many elder gambling addicts go there. They need to be shut down.
There’s NO WAY they are cleaning all of those machines or sanitizing the place.
Staff aren’t allowed to wear gloves or masks and are told they need to go to work or risk their job. This is sickening!!!
shirley A-z my apologies I’m illiterate and grew up on the streets. I tried though 🤪🤪
shirley A-z that’s what happens when you get an entitled drama teacher who hasn’t had to do anything for his self is whole life. But hey all politicians are scum..
C L the last think you want to do is have crack fiends running around freaking out because they can’t get their fix 😂😂
It’s hard to believe how irresponsible some people are.
new new some people just think they know everything. It’s best to keep an open mind! It really is sad though that the government is allowing these thief’s to take advantage of the elders like this. Even in general when there is no virus.
I thought Canada said that they were very well prepared for this because of SARS… could have sworn I heard that…
KWM go check out CNN the state of the union. Dr. Anthony Fauci was just on and being interviewed. He was explaining the severity of the situation and the potential for what is to come.
@Ontario Prepperit’s bad, isn’t it?
KWM worse case scenario millions dead, best case tens of thousands. I’m just about to upload a video regarding his video come check it out in a few minutes.
@Ontario Prepper okie
@Amanat Gill If China hadn’t learned something from SARS millions more would be dead today! During SARS many cities were completely closed, schools, universities and all gatherings were also banned; social isolation was also encouraged. China is vast compared to 36.2 million in Canada, which should make being safe far easier for Canada.
This guy decided to put his family at risk because it was his birthday?
@tammie69 Too many of them!
Didn’t you know. For some reason. We are aloud to drive all over Canada and the USA so we can spread our germs across two countries? But flying is bad…o.o
^^^ Grade A dumb B!!! lol!
@Harruar Adults can go out and die when ever they want to. But, it’s pretty irresponsible to take your children out and needlessly expose them.
Thats what happens when the country wont quarantine idiots
The fact that our borders are still open is negligence on the part of the government. We have seen what it does to other countries, and it will happen here.
In my country El Salvador our president closed borders and we are not allowing ppl from other countries, some ppl think he is out of his mind but so far we don’t have a single case.
Hope the best for Canada 🙏
@Daniel Rodas He did the correct thing though!
What Trudeau would ro if Harry and Megan get infected in BC?
It wouldn’t do any good at this point anyway. Now that it’s there it’ll spread like wild fire. The whole world is infected at this point. Stay home if possible.
@Nikkie Legos you still need to stop bringing in infected people if you ever want to get a handle on this, we could someday be free of this if we try
Hey Canada, PAY ATTENTION and CLOSE OUR BORDERS!
@Nikkie Legos exactly!!! I’m American
@AmbientVibes No it isnt but time is running out
Closing the borders will accomplish little more than setting our already shattered economy back a little bit further.
There are times in this life when we have to sit back and put our trust in the people with vastly more expertise and experience. Those who have spent lifetimes preparing for just this type of situation. This is, beyond a doubt, one of those times.
Those people have spent decades working out the best course of action to take in situations like this. They calculated all of that using science, psychology, mathematics etc. that are, quite frankly, miles over most of our heads.
Just because you can’t personally understand why certain actions are being taken at this difficult time, doesn’t mean those actions are wrong.
I’m not sure what you think doctors, scientists and other highly educated people do during their countless years of advanced education and training, but, surely you don’t honestly believe you can learn more from the blogs, videos and biased news stories you may have partially digested over the past few weeks than the combined knowledge of many of the most highly educated and experienced experts on the planet.
What this world needs right now is a massive dose of humility.
Honestly people, for once in your lives just do as you are told by those who truly know what they are talking about. This situation is difficult enough without a bunch of completely unqualified people trying to run the show.
Even Trump has finally figured out he is in way over his head right now and has begun to accept advice from the true experts.
You can’t begin to imagine the possible effect this pandemic could possibly have on all our futures. The vast majority of us will survive this physically. We will all undoubtedly lose people dear to us before this is all over, but he true, long term danger posed by this virus is to our financial and societal health.
This isn’t a game folks!
too late.
@KUSH Too late now.
And everybody sitting in the Yukon just chillin
It’s in the Air it will get there somehow!
ontarioman100 it’s got to deal with the Chilkoot Pass and the Yukon rapids first 😂
you don’t need to be in Yukon , lots of solitude 2hrs NE of the Armpit (Toronto)
@ontarioman100 it’s literally not in the air, as it is not an airborn virus…
@Yuteng Cui Not likely that it will. I worked in the arctic islands, back in the day, it was -40 to -50 and never a hint of a cold. Viruses don’t like heat or too cold.
Get ready for Trump to close the border with Canada when our cases explode because our leaders consider it racist to impede anyone from one of the hot zones from entering and heaven forbid if we should test anyone and not rely on their honesty to divulge all relevant information as to their travels or health.
Canada doesn’t discriminate against any plagues. Bring one, bring all, Canada’s borders are open for business.
You’ll all die
I’d be very curious to know what percent of Canadians want the borders closed. Seems like most people do, I wish we could vote on it 😓
Yeah lol its ridiculous 95% of Canadians want to limit how many people enter/leave the country but a handful of people dont want to for political and economic reasons I guess
Most Canadians voted that prick in, so suffer for it.
@Adrian Virtue signaling idiots who care more about their fake projected image than reality.
The borders will be closed. The question is when. In my opinion, they should have been closed weeks ago for prevention as opposed to reaction.
With the doubling rate being 6 days. By beginning of April we will above 1000 infected people. At that point US will ban travel to Canada.
You can’t focus on clusters without broad testing.
This is never going to be bad. It’s just fake crap show typical news.
truth is… we already passed the cluster stage and are in the community spread stage… few weeks ago, Socal and Norcal had 2 of non china related cases and they were not able to contact trace. That is a sign of community spread yet we never made that announcement.
Another problem with limiting testing to higher probability and severity infections based on symptoms is that it skips the ~80% of the population that may catch it but only have mild or no symptoms from covid-19, which could make available statistics heavily skewed for the worst by only representing the 20% high-risk part of the population.
By not testing, BC’s COVID-19 number will remain low and therefore, the risk is low! What a joke!
@Joonko Blu The test is not for the treatment of the patient or their peace of mind. The test is for epidemiological tracking and estimating where resources need to be sent. Treatment is for symptoms as they occur and the COVID-19 test would be irrelevant for determining a course of treatment. Testing is VERY important to locate outbreaks and address them. Testing saves lives.
They want this to blow up and become something. How can you deny testing ???
Ahhhhhh, BC. (That’s a good idea.)
Michael Bobkov lie to them that you can’t breathe
@Brian Thomas they need to conserve the tests for use tracking outbreaks as explained by the health minister. People being upset that they can’t get the test when they don’t need it should stop and think about why they want the test. Are they thinking that if they don’t have COVID-19 and just the flu that they will be able to go about their business, infecting people with the flu? If Everyone followed good protocol and stayed home when sick to begin with we would not have a COVID-19 outbreak that is so severe. Unfortunately as we can see from this comment section most people just want to be tested so they know whether or not they are required to self-isolate. Is it that hard to just stay home when you are sick? I know some people can’t afford to, but they are just spreading sickness to other people who can’t afford to get sick either. What we need is a minimum number of federally mandated sick days, so even minimum wage workers can take time off with pay if they are sick with any kind of flu.
I cut my nails short. Other woman might give it thought also. Not easy keeping nails clean when they are long.
Cut mine as well. Chop chop!
Good idea
A doctor told me to do this today
Wash you shoes don’t track the virus into your home stay safe.
Same. People need to scrub under their nails. I’m sure people aren’t thinking about that.
People can come to Canada freely with little or no check out, and people want to go to united states now, they will come to Canada first then to US because of US travel bans, Canada is becoming a filtering and travel through country. Please follow United states policies for travel suspensions!
I don’t see why governments wouldn’t be able to track where people have gone via their passports
Why they say no one was expecting this. It was just after Christmas when I started to hear about this and had started buying supplies in small amounts and I remember even then masks were almost completely out of stock.
everyone expected this…
They dont care about the people ..
Rolando Mota I’m praying this vaccine isn’t compulsory as I’ll be choosing prison over the vaccine (and then it’ll be forced in prison anyway) I lost my life 22 years ago due to a vaccine and been bedridden 80% of the time since then.
Not a chance in hell i’m willingly having another vax. The last one nearly killed me
So true make shure you wash your shoes don’t track the virus into your house stay safe.
Right, back when we were being told what “low risk” it was to anyone outside of China. All we get is lies. lies, lies. :/
The irony in all this : if the roles were reversed and we had more cases than the US, they would close their borders in a heartbeat 😂😂
@hamachikama Trump didn’t reject any test kits. The WHO never provided ANY test kits. They only provided a set of guidelines to follow in the production of test kits. The CDC for whatever reason decided to implement their own guidelines in the production of test kits and they came up with tests that were more complicated and delivered inaccurate results. Trump had NOTHING to do with it.
@John T yes, the guy that can fire a whole cdc department at anytime has nothing to do with it. Of course… our president doesnt need to do anything but go play golf in west palm beach. It was an administrative choice. His team chose to have a testkit that can confirm other similar coronaviruses to sars cov 2 as well. Obviously failed…
@hamachikama You claimed the president “rejected the WHO’s original test kit” when the WHO NEVER provided any test kits. You don’t even know what you’re talking about. You have zero evidence that the president personally dictated and micromanaged what kind of test kits the CDC should use in testing for COVID-19. All you have is baseless conjecture. Cite a source to backup your claims.
Yes we would because that’s what normal people do……Iran in contrast tried to act cool about it…..shame, not working well for them. Satellite pics show mass graves there. This so China could try to get back at US for trade sanctions…..they don’t like it when their victim gets to rebellious.
Nikkie Legos few weeks will be a little to late LMFAO
Limit tests and testing? Did you learn nothing from Italy and US? Be like South Korea. Test the masses. Isolate. Practice social distancing. Stay home!
Yes come on Government of Canada consult with SOUTH KOREA, they are SO ADVANCED IN ALL WAYS WE ARE IN THE DARK AGES and CLOSE OUR BORDERS NOW !!!
The WHO recommends aggressive testing but sadly that is not happening in Canada.
Country roads, John Denver.
Almost covered, entire planet
Corona Fever Virus
Killing loved ones
Strikes the old there
A few under three
Youngsters can fight the virus
Take grandpa out with a sneeze
Quarantine Roads, stuck at home
In my place with my belongings
Entire planet, oh me oh mama
Stuck at home, quarantine roads
Photos of memories
Scrolling past me
Random babies, strangers playing in water
Parks at sunset, eating birthday pie
Drinking root beer moonshine
Tears welling up oh goodbye
Quarantine Roads, stuck at home
In my place with my belongings
Entire planet, oh me oh mama
Stuck at home, quarantine roads
We hear the official voice
No school till may mornin’ they tell me
Radio reinforces commands me
Saying stay far away
Another check point down the road
My mind reelin’
That I should have stayed home
Yesterday, tommorow and today
Quarantine Roads, stuck at home
In my place with my belongings
Entire planet, oh me oh mama
Stuck at home, quarantine roads
Quarantine Roads, stuck at home
In my place with my belongings
Entire planet, oh me oh mama
Stuck at home, quarantine roads
Stuck at home, quarantine roads
Stuck at home, quarantine roads
“who really need the test”, to how quickly it could escalate to what happened in Italy. We need to stay at home and the government needs to shut borders to control this before its out of our hands.
You can not compare with italy, they have one of the largest populations of old people in the world and the work / family / social dynamic is different. Canada has no choice but to ration the tests at the moment.
I also don’t agree with this super transparent reporting of death , it skews the impression of how many people get the disease and survive it without incident, which is over double the number of deaths.
@F C Awareness and control is in our hands. Aging population or not. You could have asymptomatic population of any age, and infect others. Im no subject matter expert, but it’s common sense at this point to care for everyone, isolate and the support our health care system.
Since this thing started I really don’t hear any news talking about the homeless people. How will they protecte themselves? Thank you to those who are doing something about it. God bless you
Basically, they will get the virus and most likely will die. This is not a virus that people can just volunteer to take care of them. There is not even enough health care professionals to take care of people in general, whether homeless or not.
This virus was designed to cull the weak members of the herd
That being said it’s almost a challenge to us Christians from God isn’t it to take care of the people who are being ignored in this situation and yes it doesn’t even have to go down there and put our hands on them although I believe we would be protected if we did the maybe we can mobilize stronger younger people to do it and we can fund it
the disease doesnt’ spread outdoors, they are probably safer than the rest of us.
Much love from AUSTRALIA
Get well canada