A commercial flight from South Korea to New York was diverted to Winnipeg on Wednesday morning, with one passenger taken to hospital and all others quarantined aboard the plane.
The Asiana Airlines plane was en route from Seoul when flight radar shows it was diverted over northern Ontario and rerouted to Winnipeg at 6:30 a.m.
It was parked on the tarmac at Winnipeg’s international airport for nearly four hours before departing again.
It was initially quarantined under precaution of something very contagious, a provincial government spokesperson said in an email.
The passenger who was removed was sent to St. Boniface Hospital and put into a special containment unit, but has since been moved out of it, the spokesperson said. All precautions were taken and there is no public health threat, she said.