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#Coronavirus live updates: Death toll exceeds 100 in China as number of cases doubles to 4,500 nationalpost.com/news/canada/wu…

This website reports the total number of confirmed outbreaks, number of confirmed outbreaks in each country as well as the confirmed death toll nationalpost.com/news/world/the… #Coronavirus

When pandemics strike, so do outbreaks of racism healthing.ca/wellness/how-t… #Coronavirus #CoronavirusCanada #CoronavirusOutbreak

How concerned should we be about the #coronavirus outbreak? It’s complicated nationalpost.com/news/damned-if… #CoronavirusCanada #CoronavirusOutbreak

Here's how big companies are responding to the outbreak, as well as early analysts' estimates of the impact business.financialpost.com/news/retail-ma… #CoronavirusCanada #CoronavirusOutbreak #Coronavirus

Airport screening for viruses is back, despite post-SARS study that found it to be of little use nationalpost.com/health/airport… #CoronavirusCanada #CoronavirusOutbreak #Coronavirus

Toronto schools, universities on alert amid reports parents of students shared flight with patient nationalpost.com/news/coronavir… #CoronavirusCanada #CoronavirusOutbreak #Coronavirus

Dr. Pierre Talbot of the Institut national de la recherche scientifique in Laval, a scientist who has worked with the coronavirus for more than 30 years believes the epidemic will be contained within the next few weeks.
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This Toronto-based tech company was one of the first to detect cases of the coronavirus using artificial intelligence
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At least 126 Canadians stuck in quarantined areas of China are asking for the government’s help to get home, as the coronavirus continues to spread nationalpost.com/news/canadians… #CoronavirusCanada #Coronavirus

One person is being tested for the coronavirus in Ottawa. However, this is not a presumptive case of the virus, said a spokeswoman for Ottawa Public Health ottawacitizen.com/news/local-new… #CoronavirusCanada

Coronavirus conspiracy theories: Sorting fact from fiction as speculation reaches fever pitch nationalpost.com/news/canada/co… #CoronavirusCanada #Coronavirus

The Quebec Health Department says it has ruled out the new coronavirus in one of the three cases it reported to be testing this week montrealgazette.com/news/local-new… #CoronavirusCanada #Coronavirus

Here's why a mask won't protect you from the Wuhan coronavirus nationalpost.com/news/canada/wu… #CoronavirusCanada #Coronavirus

Canadian retailers, other businesses start eyeing contingency plans in case of coronavirus outbreak business.financialpost.com/news/fp-street… #CoronavirusCanada #Coronavirus

China has locked down Wuhan and imposed travel restrictions within China. But evidence that children might contract and spread the disease without showing acute symptoms may complicate those efforts nationalpost.com/news/world/doc… #CoronavirusCanada #Coronavirus

The coronavirus has nothing to do with @corona beer, despite what many people around the world seem to think nationalpost.com/life/food/the-… #CoronavirusCanada #Coronavirus

@corona The person-to-person spread of the new coronavirus in three countries – Germany, Vietnam and Japan – is worrying and will be considered by experts reconvened to consider declaring a global emergency nationalpost.com/pmn/health-pmn… #CoronavirusCanada #Coronavirus

@corona In the wake of the coronavirus, movies like Contagion and Outbreak have become very popular nationalpost.com/entertainment/… via @nparts #CoronavirusCanada #Coronavirus

@corona @nparts Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says the government has a plane preparing to fly Canadians out of the province in China at the centre of an outbreak nationalpost.com/news/canada/ca… #CoronavirusCanada #Coronavirus

@corona @nparts Coronavirus live updates: 13 airliners cancel or suspend travel to China nationalpost.com/news/canada/wu… #CoronavirusCanada #Coronavirus

@corona @nparts Vaccine will likely take a year to come, Canada's chief public health officer says nationalpost.com/news/canada/wu… #CoronavirusCanada #Coronavirus #CoronavirusOutbreak

@corona @nparts Some 6,000 people are being kept on board an Italian cruise ship as tests are carried out on two Chinese passengers suspected of having caught coronavirus nationalpost.com/news/world/cor… #CoronavirusCanada #CoronavirusOutbreak #Coronavirus

@corona @nparts How the coronavirus is being felt across Canada — from the chilly waters off B.C. to companies in Toronto business.financialpost.com/news/economy/h…
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@corona @nparts Coronavirus outbreak active and spreading, WHO says: 'Why wouldn't people be concerned?' nationalpost.com/news/coronavir…
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@corona @nparts WHO considers global emergency declaration as death toll hits 170 nationalpost.com/news/world/cor…
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@corona @nparts Travellers are getting creative, wearing plastic sheets, using water jugs as headgear and sporting motorcycle helmets on flights healthing.ca/diseases-and-c…
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@corona @nparts Coronavirus live updates: World Health Organization declares global health emergency nationalpost.com/news/world/cor…
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@corona @nparts Coronavirus symptoms: What does being infected look like? nationalpost.com/news/canada/co… #CoronavirusCanada #CoronavirusOutbreak #Coronavirus

@corona @nparts Chinese-Canadians facing hate, racism for coronavirus outbreak — much like the SARS outbreak in 2003 nationalpost.com/news/chinese-c… #CoronavirusCanada #CoronavirusOutbreak #Coronavirus

@corona @nparts Stephen LeDrew: Fight the virus and racism at once nationalpost.com/opinion/stephe… #CoronavirusCanada #CoronavirusOutbreak #Coronavirus

@corona @nparts Air Canada is cancelling all flights to Beijing and Shanghai from Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver effective Thursday healthing.ca/news/air-canad… #CoronavirusCanada #CoronavirusOutbreak #Coronavirus

@corona @nparts New on 10/3 podcast: @BreakenridgeYEG talks with National Post health reporter @sharon_kirkey about how the outbreak started, why this virus has people worried and how Canadian officials have responded nationalpost.com/news/canada/10…
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@corona @nparts @BreakenridgeYEG @sharon_kirkey Coronavirus risk to Canadians 'remains low' despite WHO declaring it a global emergency: top health official nationalpost.com/news/coronavir… #CoronavirusOutbreak #Coronavirus

@corona @nparts @BreakenridgeYEG @sharon_kirkey The team at the International Vaccines facility are in preliminary stages of developing a prototype and say it could be a year before the vaccine is ready to test on humans nationalpost.com/news/it-could-… #CoronavirusOutbreak #Coronavirus

@corona @nparts @BreakenridgeYEG @sharon_kirkey Coronavirus live updates: Death toll hits 213 and number of infected reaches 9,800 globally nationalpost.com/news/world/cor… #CoronavirusOutbreak #Coronavirus

@corona @nparts @BreakenridgeYEG @sharon_kirkey Chinese tourists cancel trips to Canadian hotspots such as Banff, Jasper vancouversun.com/pmn/news-pmn/c…
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@corona @nparts @BreakenridgeYEG @sharon_kirkey Coronavirus live updates: Italy declares state of emergency after two tourists infected nationalpost.com/news/world/cor…
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@corona @nparts @BreakenridgeYEG @sharon_kirkey Live updates: Scientists estimate more than 75,000 people could be infected in Wuhan nationalpost.com/news/world/cor…
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@corona @nparts @BreakenridgeYEG @sharon_kirkey Experts say since not every coronavirus case is serious enough to need immediate medical attention, some cases could be undercounted in the official tally nationalpost.com/news/world/cor… #CoronavirusOutbreak #Coronavirus

@corona @nparts @BreakenridgeYEG @sharon_kirkey The damage for Corona, subject of an unending stream of jokes juxtaposing it with the completely unconnected virus, isn't likely to be too bad business.financialpost.com/news/retail-ma… #CoronavirusOutbreak #Coronavirus

@corona @nparts @BreakenridgeYEG @sharon_kirkey Live updates: Ontario has third case of coronavirus, bringing Canadian cases to four nationalpost.com/news/world/cor… #CoronavirusOutbreak #CoronavirusCanada #Coronavirus

@corona @nparts @BreakenridgeYEG @sharon_kirkey Watch live as China builds two hospitals at lightning speed to tackle coronavirus in Wuhan nationalpost.com/news/world/wat…
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@corona @nparts @BreakenridgeYEG @sharon_kirkey Alberta’s chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw said a number of people have been tested in the province, but there are still no probable or confirmed cases edmontonjournal.com/news/local-new…
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@corona @nparts @BreakenridgeYEG @sharon_kirkey People are organizing to send thousands of needed items overseas, including hand sanitizers and disinfectant wipes, but stocks are running out montrealgazette.com/news/local-new…
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@corona @nparts @BreakenridgeYEG @sharon_kirkey We asked an infectious diseases epidemiologist everything you wanted to know about 2019-nCoV healthing.ca/diseases-and-c…
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@corona @nparts @BreakenridgeYEG @sharon_kirkey Health Minister Patty Hajdu said the government is working with Chinese officials to determine when Canada can send a flight for the Canadians nationalpost.com/news/politics/…
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