Plane to help 156 Canadians leave China awaits Chinese approval: official

Canada's top foreign-affairs official says 156 Canadians have asked for help to leave China amid an outbreak of a new virus. Marta Morgan, the deputy minister of foreign affairs, tells a House of Commons committee this morning that Canada is still working on getting Chinese approval to send a chartered plane to collect them.Up-to-date map: Tracking the spread of the coronavirusTo try to contain the novel coronavirus, China has all but sealed off one of its central provinces, beginning with the c