Plane Turns Around, Flies Back to Canada After Passenger Claims to Have Coronavirus: Police

Baggage handlers remove luggage from a WestJet aircraft in a file photo The Canadian Press/Christopher Katsarov

A plane had to turn around and fly 1,000 miles back home because a man on board claimed to have caught the Wuhan coronavirus.

On Monday, a WestJet flight from Toronto, Canada, to Montego Bay, Jamaica, turned around after a man declared that he had contracted coronavirus.