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  • Ottawa airport advises passengers to check flight status as U.S. flights grounded

    Ottawa airport advises passengers to check flight status as U.S. flights grounded

    Canada Global (Web News) Aircraft in the US were halted on Wednesday due to a computer malfunction, the Ottawa airport is advising travellers to check the status of their flights.

    Prior to arriving at the airport, check the status of your flight, the Ottawa airport tweeted on Wednesday morning.

    As a result of the Federal Aviation Administration’s breakdown on Wednesday, hundreds of delays immediately spread throughout the system at airports across the country.

    Despite the fact that airlines claimed they were aware of the situation and had already started grounding flights, the FAA ordered all U.S. flights to delay departures until 9 a.m. Eastern.

    Two planes, one on Air Canada and one on United Airlines, were delayed to Newark on Wednesday morning, according to the Ottawa airport’s departures page.

    The FAA decided that the safety system affected by the overnight outage was fully restored, and the nationwide ground stop will be removed immediately, according to a tweet from U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

  • Masks recommended on long flights amid new COVID variant spread: WHO

    Masks recommended on long flights amid new COVID variant spread: WHO

    Canada Global (Web News) COVID-19 Omicron subvariant’s rapid spread in the United States, countries should think about advising travellers to wear masks on long-haul flights, according to World Health Organization (WHO) officials on Tuesday.

    According to WHO/Europe authorities at a press briefing, the XBB.1.5 subvariant is being found in Europe in a small but growing number of cases.

    People travelling from anywhere where there is significant COVID-19 transmission should be encouraged to use masks in high-risk situations such as long-haul flights, according to Catherine Smallwood, the WHO’s senior emergency officer for Europe.

    According to US health officials, XBB.1.5, the most contagious Omicron subvariant to date, was responsible for 27.6% of COVID-19 cases in the country for the week ending January 7.

    If XBB.1.5 spreads globally on its own, it has not yet been determined. According to specialists, current vaccines continue to offer protection against serious symptoms, hospitalisation, and death.

    Smallwood continued, “Countries need to look at the evidence base for pre-departure testing,” stressing the importance of avoiding a narrow geographic focus.

    “Our position is that travel measures should be enforced in a non-discriminatory manner,” she stated when action was being discussed.

    She continued by saying that at this point, the FDA does not propose testing for travellers arriving from the United States.

    As long as it does not syphon resources away from domestic surveillance systems, measures like genetic surveillance and targeting travellers arriving from other nations are permissible. A few more are wastewater monitoring systems installed close to points of entry, like airports.

  • Canada’s COVID travel restrictions for China won’t stop spread of new variants: experts

    Canada’s COVID travel restrictions for China won’t stop spread of new variants: experts

    Canada Global (Web News) According to experts, Canada’s demand that visitors from China have a negative COVID-19 test will not stop the virus from evolving into new forms or from spreading.

    The Temerty Faculty of Medicine assistant professor Kerry Bowman described the rule as “clearly a political measure, and not based on science at this point.”

    This is not the beginning of the pandemic, he declared. So, yes, I believe it to be mostly political.

    Before entering Canada, visitors from China, Hong Kong, and Macao will need to pass a COVID-19 test, the federal government announced on Saturday.

    Beginning on January 5, the rule will be enforced on all passengers from the three nations who are two years old or older.

    Although little is known about the many Omicron types that are in circulation, China’s reversal from tight COVID-19 control procedures has resulted in widespread infection in that nation, according to Bowman, a professor of bioethics and global health.

    “I don’t believe it’s a wise decision. It doesn’t, in my opinion, make us safer. On the surface, it appears like governments are protecting their citizens and acting pro-actively and sensitively, the speaker stated.

    However, it’s very obvious that point of entrance screening is completely ineffective. People frequently test positive days or weeks after the fact.