By The Canadian Press

Alberta hit with three new cases of novel coronavirus

Mar 9, 2020 | 10:56 AM

EDMONTON – Alberta is facing three new potential cases of novel coronavirus.

Deena Hinshaw, the province’s chief medical officer, says that brings the total number of cases in the province to seven.

Six are presumptive and one is confirmed.

Presumptive cases are ones that have been detected in Alberta’s lab, but not confirmed by Canada’s national microbiology lab in Winnipeg.

A man in his 40s from the Edmonton area was confirmed on Sunday as having contracted COVID-19.

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He had recently travelled to the United States, but health officials believe the source of the infection is more likely to have been a travel companion who was on a previous voyage of a Grand Princess cruise ship now docked off California.