According to local health officials, those under COVID-19 quarantine for the past two weeks in the eastern Ontario city will finally be cleared to head home Friday morning.
When Trudy Clement gets home later today, there will be a nice glass of wine waiting.
The Callander, Ont., woman has been under coronavirus quarantine with her husband at the Nav Centre in Cornwall, Ont., since they and more than 120 other Canadians were evacuated last month from the Diamond Princess cruise ship.
But that time in isolation is coming to an end. According to local health officials, those who’ve spent the past two weeks under medical observation in the eastern Ontario city will finally be cleared this morning to head home.
“I think their thinking is that the people that are travelling to Toronto — which is the furthest destination from here — will be the ones to leave first,” Clement told CBC News Thursday.
“And then after that, it will be [those heading to] the Montreal and Ottawa airports, which are closer to here. And people who are getting independent rides.”
‘Long time’ without freedom
Clement spent two weeks stuck on board the Diamond Princess — a “luxury prison,” as she