Niagara Region Public Health (NRPH) is confirming three more positive cases of the new coronavirus, which brings the region’s total to seven cases.
All cases are travel-related and have different dates of onset, according to the health agency. The new cases involve two men: one in his 40s who returned to Canada from the U.S.
and another in his 60s with a connection to past travel to the Philippines. The third case is a woman in her 20s who travelled to the U.S.
NRPH says all are recovering at home in self-isolation and an investigation is underway to reach out to those who may have made contact with the three. “While we are not yet seeing local circulation of the virus, community transmission has occurred elsewhere in Ontario,” said Dr.