Data shows Canada's early COVID-19 cases came from the U.S. not China

Data from Canada's largest provinces show it was American travelers, not Chinese, who brought the novel coronavirus to Canadian shores, according to the National Post Friday. 

The National Post in Canada asked for data on the origins of travel-related cases in four provinces that have seen the majority of Canada's COVID-19 cases. 

As of April 17, Ontario has identified 1,201 cases of COVID-19 in people who had recently returned from some type of international travel. Of those cases, just five related to travel from China. By contrast, 404 were from people travelling from the U.S.

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