Canada's top doctor told CBC News the federal government could have made earlier efforts to keep the COVID-19 pandemic from sweeping across the country — but moves to close borders and screen travellers for the illness sooner might not have made much of a difference.
In a wide-ranging interview, Canada's Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam told CBC News that simply shutting the border to travellers from China and other COVID-19 hotspots earlier wouldn't have stopped the virus from coming in from other countries — and that expecting officials to identify travellers at the border with virus symptoms was "unlikely."
She also said the closure of the Canada/U.S. border did not happen sooner because it wasn't part of the government's pandemic preparedness plan.
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