Trudeau said $72.6 million of the money would go towards health services and community preparedness within the country's three territories.

The Home Depot of Canada and Manulife Financial Corp. are now among companies requiring their employees who are returning from Asia and Italy to either self-quarantine or to halt travel to those areas.

Authorities announced yesterday that they had detected the respiratory illness in a man who recently travelled to Toronto from Wuhan, China, the epicentre of the virus.