Three Canadian border officers have been quarantined after they were in close contact with a traveller who died of the new coronavirus hours after arriving at Toronto’s Pearson airport, according to their union.
The Canada Border Services Agency officers are being testing for COVID-19, but health officials are hopeful since they were all wearing masks, gloves and goggles when they dealt with the woman. “We’re waiting for the results,” Jean-Pierre Fortin, the national president of the Customs and Immigration Union, told Global News in an interview on Tuesday.
The officers were on duty Saturday when a Markham, Ont. woman arrived on a flight from Los Angeles. She died hours later, according to the York Region health officer.