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A woman in her 20s is the third confirmed case of coronavirus in Ontario and the fourth confirmed case in Canada, public health officials announced Friday.

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The woman, who lives in London, Ont. and goes to Western University, landed from Wuhan on Jan. 23, said Chris Mackie of the London Health Unit.

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She showed no symptoms when she arrived in the country, but came down with symptoms the following day, on Jan. 24. She went to the hospital, but was not sick enough to be admitted. Health care workers swabbed her and sent her home to be monitored from there.

Ontario’s chief medical health officer David Williams says initial testing in Ontario showed the woman was negative for the virus, but later tests at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg came back as “weakly” positive. Officials said everybody else who tested negative around the same time were retested and still came back negative.