Coronavirus Outbreak: Ottawa Now Advising Canadians Not to Go to China’s Hubei Province

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Pedestrians wear protective masks as they walk in Toronto on Jan. 27, 2020. The Canadian government is now advising citizens against all travel to a Chinese province that's at the centre of a global outbreak of a new form of coronavirus, stepping up an earlier warning about the region. The Canadian Press/Frank Gunn

TORONTO—The Canadian government is now advising citizens against all travel to a Chinese province that’s at the centre of a global outbreak of a new form of coronavirus, stepping up an earlier warning about the region.

On Monday afternoon the government updated its advice for travellers to say that Canadians shouldn’t go to Hubei province at all.