Nine domestic flights and 21 international flights have been flagged from cities in Europe, India, Mexico, the Middle East and a range of U.S. cities.
specifically state on their website that international and domestic passengers seated near a confirmed case of COVID-19 are no longer directly notified of their potential exposure.
“Transport Canada could pass a regulation tomorrow that if an airline is notified of a case of COVID-19, they must text everyone on that plane.” “They determine whether contact tracing is necessary and will follow through as they deem appropriate ,” he wrote in an email in response to questions from CTVNews.ca.
As of July 16, when the WestJet list was last updated, it listed nine flights in July, but none since July 6.Of the flights flagged on the federal government’s website, three domestic and eight international indicate that affected rows are unknown. Most of the others show a span of four to six rows. Pre-flight screening, temperature monitoring and mandatory face coverings are “also seen to be effective.”Washington Post opinion piece
“Billions of people travel by plane every year, yet there have only been a handful of documented disease outbreaks attributable to airplanes in the past 40 years,” he wrote.
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