Over the growing concerns of COVID-19, we are urging the faculty to take the necessary preventative measures to make sure that students are safe from the virus before it arrives. Although students have been informed of "proper handwashing procedure", this is not a practical response to the exponential growth of the virus. Our hope as students is to make sure that the virus doesn't arrive, and if it does, we will not have gone to lectures and tutorials knowing that there is a possibility it has been transmitted further in this environment.

We do not want to be the next province:

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/covid-19-spreads-to-five-provinces-as-manitoba-confirms-first-case-of-novel-coronavirus