OTTAWA — Canada has a plane preparing to fly Canadians out of the province in China at the centre of an outbreak of a new coronavirus, Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne said Wednesday. The next step is to secure co-operation from China to assist the 160 Canadians who have requested help, Champagne said. China has all but sealed off one of its central provinces where the novel coronavirus was first detected. Champagne said Canada is working with allies to co-ordinate plans and make the logistics work, and that could take some time yet. Adrian Wyld/THE CANADIAN PRESS Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne and Minister of Health Patty Hajdu spea about coronavirus on Jan. 29, 2020 in Ottawa.

Source: Huffington Post January 29, 2020 19:58 UTC