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Bye Cornwall! Our stay here at the NAV Centre has been great but it’s time for us to get home! Thank you Cornwall for hosting us & everyone for making this leg of the quarantine more enjoyable! We‘re just waiting for the nurse to come by for the final check before we can board! pic.twitter.com/I9Uogm2wKc — CabinE207PrincessCruise (@CabinE207) March 6, 2020

The agreement with Health Canada provided clauses ensuring “any expenses incurred by the Cornwall Police Service were going to be covered by Health Canada,” Chief Danny Aikman told the police services board Thursday.

“We intend to follow up quite vigorously on that, once this operation is completed.”

The board also heard that the CPS responded to one call for service relating to the group of passengers during the quarantine period. The call was made on the very first day of the quarantine when a passenger did not want to put on a facemask when leaving a bus.

“He did not want to get off the bus wearing the mask,” said Staff Sgt. George Knezevic. “They were required to wear the mask when they were with the rest of the travellers.”

The quarantine officer approached Knezevic and the two quarantine officers and determined he would issue the 60-year-old passenger with a detention order of compliance.

The two quarantine officers, who were present in the quarantine area for less than five minutes, were thoroughly decontaminated according to the staff sergeant.

Two quarantine officers were always present on site, enforcing the federal and provincial statutes within the quarantine zone. T

The officers, along with 50 or so frontline officers, were trained on how to put on masks and other protective gear. The N95 masks were, according to Knezevic, the best masks available to officers, with each of them having to be fitted personally on CPS staff.