Evening Update: Most flights carrying passengers with COVID-19 to Canadian airports were domestic; hugs and pints as Britain lifts restrictions

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Also in the news today, Ontario will likely extend stay-at-home order past May 20

, host Tamara Khandaker speaks to André Picard about how Canada has fared in the COVID-19 pandemic, what to do if you have vaccine-hesitant friends or family and whether the end of restrictions is in sight.Most flights carrying COVID-19-positive passengers to Canadian airports were domestic, data revealare now predominantly domestic routesInternational flights accounted for more than 60 per cent of cases linked to air travel in January and February.

The results of the data analysis raised questions among public-health experts and political leaders about whether Canada needs to do more to stem the spread of COVID-19 from domestic air travel.Much of Britain will take a major step toward normality next week when the governmentin England and permits people to hug each other, drink a pint in a pub and watch a movie in a cinema.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that as of May 17 pubs and restaurants in England can resume indoor service and other venues will be allowed to reopen including conference centres, concert halls, museums and sports stadiums.Britain has seen a steady decline in infections, deaths and hospitalizations in recent weeks as the vaccination rollout ramped up.

Indeed, in recent years Fort McMurray has become almost synonymous with disaster, having been ravaged by fire in one of Canada’s worst natural disasters in the spring of 2016, then hit by a devastating flood in 2020. Most recently, it made headlines for having the highest coronavirus rates in Alberta, which in turn has some of the highest per capita rates in the world.Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott says the stay-at-home order set to expire May 20 will likely be extended.

 

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Parsing the details of a lengthy pandemic, imported and virulently persistent, is becoming an exercise in tabloid news.

Why not report daily on the only viable solution: How many doses of vaccine landed today. Where did they land and where and when ( to the hour) did the federal supply monopolists ship them for vaccination?

Why they keeping international travelers 90% People's traveling with no sense

Well actually most were from Alberta and Manitoba. International flights were Middle East and EU (Amsterdam, Germany which are most likely via India/Pakistan). See what happens to the numbers when you stop direct flights from India and Pakistan

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