Three new cases of COVID-19 have been announced in Ontario, bringing the province’s number of confirmed cases up to 11.
Health officials made the announcement in a news release Saturday afternoon and said two of the new cases involve patients with a travel history to Iran.
The third case involves the husband of one of those two patients, officials said.
A 34-year-old woman who arrived in Toronto on Wednesday contacted health officials on Thursday, who then coordinated a time for the woman to arrive at Mackenzie Health hospital in York Region.
The news release said she had a travel history to Iran and had a dry cough, runny nose, shortness of breath and a headache.
She was wearing a mask when she arrived at the hospital, officials said, adding she was ultimately not admitted due to the “low severity of symptoms” and is now in self-isolation.
The second case involves a 51-year-old woman who returned to Toronto from Iran on Feb. 22 and went to an Ajax clinic on Friday with symptoms of a cough, chills and body aches.
Officials said the Durham Region Health Department then contacted Lakeridge Health Ajax Pickering and organized a time for the woman, who was wearing a mask, to arrive at the hospital. She was later discharged and put in self-isolation.
The woman’s husband, a 69-year-old man who accompanied her to the clinic and hospital, also tested positive for COVID-19, but did not have a travel history to Iran, officials said. The man, who had a cough, was given a mask and isolated when he accompanied his wife.
He is also now in self-isolation at home.
Late Friday night, the province announced its eighth case of the virus after a man in his 80s with a travel history to Egypt went to a Scarborough hospital. He too later went into self-isolation.
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