new phase of international flight restrictions yesterday as Canada’s largest province announced they’d recorded 36 cases of the new coronavirus variant that these restrictions are ostensibly aimed at keeping out.The B.1.617 variant, as it’s now known, is suspected of fueling the surge of COVID-19 infections in India over the last month.
Given that we’ve had numerous positive cases on flights from India to Canada through the month of April, it should really come as no big surprise that we’re starting to find cases here.The question is why we waited so long to respond.In fact, much of Canada’s current third wave is being driven by variants that we also failed to keep out.