Canada bans flights from India for 30 days
The Canadian government has banned all passenger flights from India and Pakistan for 30 days due to the unprecedented spike in Covid-19 cases in the region, the longest country-specific travel ban imposed by Canada.
The flight ban took effect from midnight Thursday, Transport Minister Omar Alghabra said on Thursday.
A number of countries like the UK, Australia and Singapore have banned travel to and from India due to surge in coronavirus infections.
Transport minister Alghabra said the government imposed a 30-day ban, the longest travel ban Canada has put on any individual country, on passengers flights from India and Pakistan, based on advice from federal health officials in order to buy time to assess more data,
