Third flight from Haiti with COVID-infected passengers
The Feds just don't seem to get it....imposing lockdown here to stop the spread of the virus is NOT going to accomplish anything if you keep allowing infected people from around the world to land here with the virus.
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Two Air Transat flights from Port-au-Prince last week were also listed by Health Canada as having 'all rows' impacted by COVID
For the third time in 10 days, so many passengers on an Air Transat flight from Port-au-Prince to Montreal tested positive for COVID-19 that Health Canada deemed the entire plane impacted by the virus.
On Wednesday, Health Canada added TS663 — which landed in Montreal on Jan. 17 — to its online list of COVID-impacted flights. Two other flights from Haiti earlier this month —TS663 and TS665 — were deemed to have all rows affected by passengers who subsequently tested positive for the virus.
All three flights used Airbus A330s, capable of holding between 345 and 375 passengers.
Health Canada doesn’t list how many infected people were on each flight.
As of Wednesday afternoon, 139 flights with at least one COVID-19 infected passenger landed in Canada since Jan. 7, when negative COVID-19 tests were made mandatory for all Canada-bound flights.
Haiti was granted an exception to this rule until Jan. 21 due to a lack of testing infrastructure, Transport Canada told theSun earlier this week.
Transport Canada spokesperson Frédérica Dupuis said a negative test result only means they didn’t have COVID, with a certain degree of accuracy, on the day the test was performed.
“This is why, even with valid pre-departure negative test results, we will continue to see some travellers who subsequently test positive,” she said.
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