The woman was at the Jewish General Hospital on Tuesday afternoon for "a medical evaluation" and was not admitted.
COVID-19: Montreal woman who tested positive is back at home after medical evaluation
A Montreal-area woman who last week tested positive for COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by a new coronavirus, is back at home in voluntary self-isolation, where she has been since returning from Iran on Feb. 24.
She was at the Jewish General Hospital on Tuesday afternoon for “a medical evaluation.” She was not admitted.
“The doctors came to the conclusion that she could return home in self-isolation,” hospital spokesman Carl Thériault said on Wednesday morning.
The Jewish General is the designated centre in Montreal for adult cases of COVID-19 considered serious enough to require admission, reporters were told in a tour this week of the hospital facility intended for these patients. Most cases are not that severe, reporters were told.
The woman, who has what is to date Quebec’s only confirmed case of COVID-19, returned to Montreal from a trip to Iran, via Doha, Qatar. She went to a medical clinic that evening because of “mild” symptoms of COVID-19, provincial health minister Danielle McCann told reporters at a press briefing last Thursday evening in Montreal. The woman did not need to be admitted to hospital and was in voluntary self-isolation at home, McCann said..
Test results from the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg the next day confirmed the case, which was until then identified as presumed or probable. The provincial ministry said that public health authorities in Quebec had located “close contacts” of the patient and issued “appropriate recommendations.”
Since the coronavirus causing COVID-19 was detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in December, there have more than 95,000 cases, more than 80,000 in China, and more than 3,250 deaths. At least 75 other countries have been affected, with South Korea, Italy and Iran each identifying thousands of cases; 47 countries have 10 cases or fewer. Canada had 33 confirmed cases on Wednesday, 32 in Ontario and British Columbia.
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