Robyn Gill good evening and thank you
for joining us they are stressed
desperate and still stuck in China
tonight Canadians hoping to leave the
epicentre of the new coronavirus
outbreak are delayed another day but
there is a silver lining late today the
Foreign Affairs Minister confirmed a
u.s. option we had an offer by the US
State Department I was going to have a
plane which will be departing shortly
after our own plane to put a number of
Canadians on board Ottawa is also
working to help hundreds of Canadians
stranded on a cruise ship off the coast
of Japan quarantined after confirmed
cases on board the World Health
Organization says the numbers have
surged globally in the past 24 hours we
saw the most reported cases in a single
day the organization is requesting 675
million dollars in aid to help fight the
spread and today the Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation answered the call
donating up to a hundred million dollars
to vaccine research and treatment
efforts the federal government is
encouraging all Canadians who do not
need to be in China to leave while they
still can so far 373 Canadians in Wuhan
have asked for help in our top story
tonight
Abigail Beeman reports on what it's
going to take to get them home
a city of 11 million people desolate for
days video sent to global news by Miriam
LaRouche one of 211 Canadians who was
supposed to be out by now I got the
email
an hour before leaving for the airport
this email from Global Affairs Canada
telling her the evacuation flight was
delayed narrow window given by the
Chinese for flights into Wuhan and the
weather conditions were such that the
plane couldn't take off so everything's
delayed by a day
Ottawa says crosswinds were the problem
on the way to Vietnam the latest numbers
show 373 Canadians want help getting out
211 are on the manifest Wednesday
afternoon the US State Department called
Canada's foreign affairs minister with a
friendly offer
we now have secured a few seats on the
flights organized by the United States
authorities individuals who are eligible
for travel on this flights are being
contacted as we speak Francois Philippe
champagne will only say a few dozen
seats are up for grabs and Canada may
still send a second plane for the rest
meanwhile Global Affairs has updated its
travel advisory for China still warning
against any non-essential travel but
there's a new suggestion for Canadians
already there if you don't have to be to
come home now while commercial flights
are available when the Canadian flight
and the US flight with Canadians aboard
eventually land everyone will be taken
to an Ontario military base for 14 days
of quarantine we are going to be the
quarantine because and there's a new
recommendation from Canada's chief
Public Health Officer dr. Teresa Tam is
advising anyone who returned from Hebei
province in the last two weeks to limit
contact with others what the u.s. is
calling self isolation although she
stresses the risk remains low Robin
Abigail vmon in awe
Wuhan is pretty much a ghost town
because of the quarantine and fears of
her how quickly the virus is spreading
there are now more than 28,000 confirmed
cases of the new corona virus worldwide
25 countries are affected including
Belgium for the first time and at least
five hundred and sixty-five people are
dead more than 5,500 people are stranded
on to quarantine cruise ships near Japan
and Hong Kong the world dream is docked
at Hong Kong's Kai Tak cruise terminal
with 1,800 people on board and the
diamond princess is anchored off the
coast of Yokohama near Tokyo with more
than 3,700 people on board including 251
Canadians now ten more people who have
tested positive are coming off that ship
and being taken to hospital Redman
Shannon shows us how it all began nine
passengers and one crew member taken off
the diamond princess and in to
quarantine the ten none of whom are
Canadian tested positive for a new
coronavirus sanzu team even though
Japan's health minister says the other
three and a half thousand people will
stay on board for two weeks others on
board could yet test positive - we
remain confined to our cabins
we can't even open the door and walk
down the corridor
David Abel has been passing the time
chatting to the world's media the only
interaction that we're actually getting
is when a guy onto the balcony and
talked to other passengers are equally
as bored and it's nice to talk to them
in the meantime there is little Ottawa
can do for the 251 Canadians onboard we
will look at the cruise line in this
case to repatriate those Canadians when
the quarantine which has been decided by
local Health Authority is finished a
similar situation in Hong Kong where 30
passengers on this ship have a fever all
1,800 are being tested at the time being
I think we cannot conclude the likely
time of finishing the the quarantine
measures right now in a sector that
sometimes has to deal with virus
outbreaks one travel expert says
communication is key it's really
providing your
summers with the facts you know this is
what we're doing this is we have as a
precaution if you do have to take a
drastic measure informing your customer
about what you're doing people want to
be aware they want to be informed
something people on this ship may
appreciate it's been denied permission
to darken the Philippines but has no
confirmed cases one Canadian passenger
tweeted not sure how or when but it will
be good to get home the operator told
global news it will be 10 days before
the ship can dock Redman Shannon Global
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