A Canadian evacuee describes life under quarantine at CFB Trenton
CFB TRENTON, Ont. — It’s the little luxuries that make all the difference to Myriam Larouche.
Back in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, the Canadian graduate student said she felt trapped in her dorm room. The TV served as one of her only windows into the outside world, said Larouche, and even then, she struggled to make sense of the local news because she doesn’t speak much Mandarin.
By comparison, Larouche said life under quarantine at Canadian Forces Base Trenton in southern Ontario is not too shabby.
Larouche is among 213 Canadians who were flown in Friday from Wuhan, the Chinese epicentre of the novel coronavirus outbreak, to undergo two weeks of quarantine at the army base.