Dr. Bonnie Henry is putting pressure on airlines to improve screening, cancellation policies, and information sharing after several flights that landed at Vancouver International Airport last week were identified as having COVID-19 cases on board.
Dallas and San Francisco, as well as Kelowna and Montreal. It's recommended everyone on board those flights self-isolate for two weeks, but everyone should be monitoring their symptoms closely.
“If we are not feeling well, we need to have the ability to postpone or change our flights,” Henry said. “From the airline perspective, making sure we have flexible policies.” “One of the most challenging things we do is trying to get flight manifests a couple of days later when we recognize somebody who might be ill. The type of information on those flight manifests is often not very helpful in trying to follow up with people,” Henry explained.
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