COVID-19: Canada bans flights from India and Pakistan for 30 days

Today (April 22), the federal authorities declared constraints on journey from India and Pakistan.

Canada’s Transportation Minister Omar Alghabra announced that direct passenger flights from India and Pakistan to Canada will be prohibited for 30 times as of tonight at 11:30 p.m.

The ban is in response to escalating circumstance figures in India as effectively as a double-mutation of the COVID-19 virus (B1617) that is remaining viewed as a “variant of interest” (alternatively than a “variant of concern”).

Travellers arriving in Canada from India and Pakistan by way of a further country will have to have to deliver a adverse COVID-19 test final result from their past place of departure right before remaining authorized entry.

B.C. provincial well being officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and Wellness Minister Adrian Dix said in their joint assertion right now that B.C. has confirmed 42 scenarios of the B1617 variant. They extra that this variant “has also revealed to be a lot more transmissible than individuals circulating previously in the pandemic”.

Henry and Dix mentioned that they assist the federal government’s suspension of flights from India and Pakistan.

Other jurisdictions or countries both experienced presently banned (or are banning) or are decreasing flights from India, such as the U.S., Hong Kong, the U.K., the United Arab Emirates, and Australia.

In the meantime, as previously declared, journey constraints will be officially executed in B.C. tomorrow (April 23) by B.C. Solicitor Basic and General public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth to prevent British Columbians from travelling outdoors of their well being authority regions.

For present day B.C. COVID-19 update, see this short article.

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