The race is on to curb Covid-19 after a confirmed case at Toronto mining forum attended by 23,000 people, including Justin Trudeau
- A man in his 50s tested positive for Covid-19 after attending the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada convention, which ran from March 1 to 4 in Toronto
- The conference was attended by 23,000 people including Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Brazilian and Chilean mining officials and visitors from all over the world
An international mining conference attended by more than 23,000 people in Toronto is at the centre of a new case of coronavirus with the potential for global spread.
A man in his 50s tested positive for Covid-19 after attending the convention, which ran from March 1 to 4. The Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada bills its mining convention as the world’s biggest and it was attended by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Brazilian and Chilean mining officials and visitors from all over the world.
“As we know, that is a massive international conference with many countries represented and many, many individuals there,” Dr. Penny Sutcliffe, medical officer of health at the local health authority in Sudbury, said in a news conference Wednesday.
The northern Ontario city, the centre of the country’s nickel-mining industry, is where the unidentified man went to hospital on March 7 after attending PDAC March 2 and 3. Sutcliffe said potentially hundreds of people from Sudbury attended the conference.
Now the race is on to limit the spread.
“Our focus now is on breaking the chain of transmission to limit the spread of infection,” Sutcliffe said in an earlier statement. “As a precautionary measure, we are asking those who attended PDAC 2020 to monitor for symptoms for 14 days.”