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Iranian events are cancelled, school trips in jeopardy Spread of COVID-19 prompts fears about public events, travel Stefan Labbé slabbe@tricitynews.com
Rick Thompson and his wife, Rita, are packing up their Coquitlam apartment to move to London, Ont., where he hopes to become Canada’s first ever recipient of a double hand transplant. He lost both of his, as well as his legs, to sepsis. For more on Thompson’s story, see article on page 17. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS
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A major uptick in the number of confirmed positive COVID-19 tests this week — four cases were announced on Tuesday alone in B.C. — and the ongoing spread of the pathogen has local schools, community organizations and government reassessing their responses. The latest case put the country-wide total at 33 confirmed cases as of Wednesday. Here in B.C., the last seven of the 12 reported cases have now had connections to travel from Iran, a country that has become a significant hub of
the virus. All of the cases have arrived on separate flights from Iran or are close contacts to those travellers. The increase in cases stemming from travel to Iran has prompted the Canada Public Health Agency to request that all people entering Canada with a travel history in Iran voluntarily self-quarantine for 14 days. Some of those cases have been traced to members of the Persian community somewhere in the Fraser Health region, an area stretching from Hope to Burnaby that includes the Tri-Cities, home to one of the largest Iranian communities in Metro Vancouver. That has groups like the TriCities Iranian Cultural Society (TCIS) concerned. see
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