The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of March 13, 2020:
— Ontario: 60 confirmed (five cases resolved)
— British Columbia: 53 confirmed, including one death (six cases resolved)
— Alberta: 23 confirmed
— Quebec: 17 confirmed
— New Brunswick: one confirmed
— Manitoba: three presumptive
— Saskatchewan: one presumptive
— Canadians quarantined at CFB Trenton: one confirmed
— Total: 159 (155 confirmed, four presumptive; 11 cases resolved)
The latest news on the novel coronavirus and the illness dubbed COVID-19 (all times Eastern):
TORONTO - Cindy Perry was all set for a March break trip to California with her wife and their two children, but the novel coronavirus outbreak that is sweeping the globe made her reconsider her plans.
VANCOUVER - Canada's first death from the novel coronavirus has highlighted the urgent and often ignored need for better staffing at long-term care facilities where elderly residents are especially vulnerable to the disease, says the head of the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions.
VANCOUVER - The Transportation Safety Board says seven rail cars that derailed in northern British Columbia last Thursday were filled with liquefied petroleum gas.
BURTON, B.C. - The RCMP are investigating after a fatal mobile home fire on the weekend in southeast British Columbia.
Dr. Bonnie Henry, the provincial health officer, announced the infections among seven new cases Tuesday, bringing the provincial total to 39.