80,000 Ask for China Flight Suspensions Into Canada Because of Coronavirus: Petition

A Chinese passenger who just arrived on the last bullet train from Wuhan to Beijing is checked for a fever by a health worker at a Beijing railway station in Beijing on Jan. 23, 2020. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

Close to 80,000 people have signed an online petition asking Ottawa to suspend flights from China in light of the COVID-19 outbreak.

Over 50 countries, including the United States, Australia, and the U.K. have imposed some form of restriction on travellers from China, but the federal government has so far ruled out similar restrictions.