What is Health Canada doing to monitor incoming passengers for SARS at airports?
A. At the Vancouver and Pearson airports, Quarantine Officers are meeting direct flights from Hong Kong, Singapore and Beijing. Quarantine Officers are also present at Montreal’s Dorval airport. They are passing out Health Alert Notices (yellow cards) to incoming passengers. These cards ask travellers to see a physician if they begin to have any symptoms related to SARS. In addition, Health Canada has placed Health Alert Notices with accompanying posters in all terminals for distribution to passengers from all other international flights (i.e., those flights that do not arrive directly from Hong Kong, Singapore and Beijing) who are not being met by a Quarantine Officer. Several thousand Health Alert Notices and Health Canada posters have been set up in airports in Halifax, St. John’s, Montreal (Mirabel), Toronto, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver. Starting April 10, some airlines began a phased-in distribution of yellow Health Alert Notice forms and traveller contact in
