The United States announced it would close its borders to foreign nationals who had travelled to China within the past 14 days. Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Singapore quickly imposed travel bans of their own
The federal government has decided to follow the WHO’s advice against travel bans because 'there isn’t evidence' that they effectively contain viral outbreaks, according to Health Minister Patty Hajdu, seen here on Feb. 3, 2020.When the World Health Organization declared a public-health emergency over the outbreak of a novel coronavirus, the agency’s director-general entreated the world: Don’t impose travel restrictions on people from China.
“Travel bans typically don’t work because if people want to travel, they find a way to do so,” said Steven Hoffman, director of the Global Strategy Lab and a professor of global health at York University. “That actually undermines the public-health response because it makes it harder to track cases in an outbreak.”
Governments that closed their borders to travellers from Mexico during the H1N1 pandemic in 2009 only managed to delay the arrival of the infection by about three days, on average, according to aIn 2006, researchers from Harvard and MIT “I think people intuitively think [barring travellers] would work, even though it’s been shown over and over again not to work," Dr. Toner said."It’s politically appealing, but it’s not the right thing to do.”
“We made an aggressive decision in front of an unprecedented threat that action now had the biggest potential to slow this thing down,” she said."That’s what the theory is here.”During the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, Canada became one of the few wealthy countries to cancel and suspend visa applications from foreign nationals who had been in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.
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