A flight headed to Jamaica on Monday was rerouted back to Toronto after a man falsely claimed that he had recently visited China, where the recent coronavirus outbreak originated.

*redacted*, a 28-year-old aspiring rapper from Vaughan, Ontario, stood up on a WestJet flight from Toronto to Montego Bay and told passengers he had just returned from Hunan province, about 300 miles from Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the new coronavirus strain.

The flight, which had 243 passengers aboard, was diverted back to Toronto about two hours after taking off. When it landed, *redacted* was escorted off, wearing a blue face mask and disposable gloves.

“That was a good one,” one passenger said as *redacted* deplaned. “We could have been in the sun.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2020/02/05/an-instagram-personality-said-he-had-coronavirus-plane-failed-viral-stunt-got-him-arrested/