Only a small percentage of travelers entering Canada since last February have tested positive for COVID-19.
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Health Canada data received via the Toronto Sun on Tuesday shows that 640 of the 44,089 travellers who arrived in Canada by air between Feb. 22 and March 15 were tested for COVID-19.
As of Feb. 22, all travelers entering Canada by land or air have been subject to one COVID-19 molecular test upon entry and a second toward the end of their mandatory 14-year quarantine period.
The figures provided by Health Canada are the “first day” tests administered to travellers upon arrival.
Most of the travelers, Health Canada spokesman André Gagnon said, were staying in government-sanctioned hotels when they tested positive and were “redirected to a designated quarantine facility or other suitable location to restrict their interactions with other Canadians while completing their isolation. “. »
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Positive tests are genetically tested for variants of concern, Gagnon added.
Of the 13,010 travellers who entered Canada by land in the same period, only 42 tested positive.
In total, only 682 of the 57,099 travellers who entered Canada by land and air at the same time tested positive.
Health Canada provided some additional breakdown of this data, either by date or port of entry, when asked via The Sun.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, there has been much debate about the effect of new cases arriving from outside Canada, i. e. after the discovery of more virulent variants of concern.
On Dec. 20, concerns about the newly isolated B. 1. 1. 7 strain of COVID-19 prompted Transport Canada to consider a transient ban on passenger flights from the United Kingdom.
That ban expired on Jan. 7, the same day that a recent negative COVID-19 screening mandatory to board any flight to Canada is evidenced.
While Health Canada maintains a two-week online list of flights with passengers who later tested positive for COVID-19, it’s not known how many other people tested positive on the flight — just 3 rows of inflamed passengers.
Of the 126 foreign flights that have landed in Canada since March, four carried inflamed passengers and four1 took off from New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport, the largest source of such flights since the beginning of 2021.
Thirty-two of the flights in New Delhi landed in Toronto.
The U. S. is the second-largest source of passengers in Canada with 14 flights, followed by 12 flights from Qatar, 11 from the United Arab Emirates, nine from Paris and seven from Istanbul and Frankfurt, Germany.
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