Canadian Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos announced that fully vaccinated travellers will no longer need pre-arrival Covid-19 testing to enter the country from April 1. “Today’s announcement is encouraging, but let us remember that all measures are subject to review,” Xinhua news agency quoted the minister as saying on Thursday.
“We will continue to adjust them as the epidemiological situation here in Canada and abroad evolves.” Vaccinated people could also still be subject to random molecular tests when they arrive at Canadian airports, Duclos said.
Currently, all travellers entering Canada have to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test.
International flight operations of scheduled international flights, to and from India, are set to resume from March 27, 2022. This resumption of international flight services comes after the scheduled international flights being banned for about two years. It was only recently when DGCA had announced that scheduled international commercial passenger flights will be suspended until further notice. In the same notification, the DGCA also stated that the restrictions will not apply to international all-cargo operations and flights specifically approved by the authority. Now, however, international flight operations will resume as normal from March-end 2022.
Prior to this, the DGCA had announced the extension of the ban on international flights till February 28. the latest order of suspension of flights continues the scheduled international passenger flight ban which has been in place in India since March 23, 2020. However, special passenger flights have been operating between India and approximately 40 countries since July 2020 under air bubble arrangements formed with them.
Additionally, fights under air bubble arrangement will not be affected. The DGCA had on November 26, 2021, announced that India will resume scheduled international passenger flights from December 15, 2021.
Just a day later, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked the Civil Aviation Ministry and the DGCA to review its decision in wake of the rising concerns of the COVID-19 variant Omicron. On December 1, 2021, the DGCA revoked its November 26 decision without saying how long the suspension of scheduled international flights continues.
(WITH IANS INPUTS)
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