While double mutation variants of the virus are rampant and deaths are beginning to “flood” Indian hospitals and crematoriums, flights from India continue to land at Canadian airports. According to Canadian health authorities, India has now become the largest source of imported cases into Canada, with 1/3 of the recent outbreaks of international flights carrying the virus coming from India. Incredibly, Canadian Health Minister Kaidoo has rejected calls to limit the number of flights from India.
At the same time, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has quietly ended additional screening procedures for incoming Brazilian travelers. Brazil is also at the center of a global outbreak, with an average of 3,000 new deaths per day since April, accounting for almost 1/3 of all new deaths per day worldwide. In just two weeks, 42 passengers on flights from New Delhi to Toronto have been diagnosed with New Coronavirus, and they are all infected with the latest double mutation virus!
On March 24, India reported the discovery of a new double mutation of a new variant of the virus, known as “double mutation,” which the Indian Ministry of Health noted “brings about immune escape and increases This mutation brings about immune escape and increases infectivity.” As things stand, the double variant is not only more transmissible than the other strains, but may also be more lethal. Medical personnel across India say that the new crown of patients in this outbreak is much younger than the first wave, with 2/3 of the confirmed cases in New Delhi being under 45 years of age. In addition, the virus is attacking younger people to an increased degree, especially in their lungs, hearts and kidneys.
In India, the number of new diagnoses in a single day has recently crossed the 200,000 mark every day, the highest in the world! The cumulative number of diagnoses in India is now over 15.1 million, making it the second highest in the world after the United States! The cumulative number of deaths is also close to 180,000.
Amidst the surge of confirmed cases in India, on April 8, New Zealand announced that it would ban travelers from India, even New Zealand citizens, from entering the country as of April 11 at 4:00 pm. The U.S. government has advised U.S. citizens to avoid all travel to India. If you must go to India, it is recommended that you complete your vaccinations before traveling. British Prime Minister Johnson, who was scheduled to come next week early, has also cancelled his trip because the epidemic in India is too serious.
A CCTV report said that on April 19, local time, British Health Minister Hancock (pictured) announced the addition of India to the red list of restrictions on international travel. From 4 a.m. on Friday (April 23), non-British and Irish citizens who had been to India 10 days prior to their travel would be banned from entering the UK, and British and Irish citizens entering the UK from India would have to undergo a 10-day mandatory quarantine.
However, it is in this context that Canada, which is suffering from the epidemic, has opened its doors wide. You know, India has banned international flights last month, but Canadian and Indian officials have adopted a special arrangement called “air bridge” (Air Bridge), by Air Canada and Air India to fly each other, two flights a day. Statistics show that since March 3, as many as 1/3 of all confirmed passengers entering Canada have flown from the same point of departure – New Delhi, India! Reports in the National Post and Toronto Sun say that Canadian Health Minister Kedoo recently rejected calls to limit the number of flights from India.
Asked if Canada was considering a ban on flights to and from India, Canadian Health Minister Kaidoo said the challenge in controlling the spread of viruses between countries is that some of the routes of transmission between them are clearly visible and some are difficult to detect. The implication is that even a ban on flights may not help! So, at least for now, it looks like the status quo of Indian flights continuing to fly in is not going to change!
The Star-Ledger reports that the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has quietly ended the additional screening process for Brazilian travelers entering the country. After the news was first broken by the Globe and Mail last week, both PHAC and Health Minister Kaidoo declined to elaborate at the time on whether the policy had been changed. In a statement sent to the Toronto Sun, the Public Health Agency of Canada finally made it clear: additional screening does not appear to be necessary.
The statement said that since the P.1 variant from Brazil is now no longer limited to those from Brazil, but has emerged in many countries, including Canada, and screening of all incoming passengers in Canada has been significantly increased, it is not clear that additional screening of passengers from Brazil would have operational value. The Public Health Agency of Canada has clarified that it has asked the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) not to conduct additional screening of inbound travelers from Brazil.
The Brazilian variant of the virus is also highly contagious, 2.5 times stronger than the regular New Coronavirus, and has a greater risk of death in young people, as well as the ability to re-infect those who have recovered, which has now crippled the Brazilian healthcare system, according to multiple media reports. Brazil’s New Coronavirus outbreak has worsened, with more than 4,000 new deaths in a single day in early April, and more than 3,000 in recent days. Canada is really in some danger right now: India and Brazil are currently the countries with the most severe outbreaks in the world. India is currently the country with the highest number of single-day confirmations in the world and the second highest cumulative number of confirmations; Brazil ranks second in the world in terms of cumulative deaths …… We would like to remind everyone that the epidemic is fierce and we must pay attention to protection and live each day in good health and safety.
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