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Canada confirms first 'presumptive' case of coronavirus

Xinhua | Updated: 2020-01-26 09:28
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TORONTO -- Canada confirmed its first "presumptive" case of the deadly coronavirus in Toronto Saturday evening.

A man in his 50s, who had traveled to the Chinese city of Wuhan, was found at Toronto's Sunnybrook Hospital.

Within a day of his return, the man became quite ill, Barbara Yaffe, director of Communicable Disease Control & Associate Medical Officer of Health for Toronto Public Health, told a press conference in Toronto.

The man is in stable condition, Yaffe said.

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