In view of numerous coronavirus cases among travelers from India and Pakistan, Canada has banned flights from these two countries for the time being. Transport Minister Omar Alghabra said the ban came into force yesterday (local time), does not apply to cargo flights and will initially last for 30 days.
Strong increase
India is currently experiencing a serious increase in the number of infections. Most recently, people tested positive for the virus in 332,730 other cases. Another 2,263 people died who tested positive. That is also a maximum. This brings the number of deaths to 186,920. The total number of positive tests in the country with 1.36 billion inhabitants is now over 16 million.
A double mutation of the coronavirus as well as religious, political and sporting mass events are blamed for the sharp increase. The situation is exacerbated by the conditions in the hospitals, in which the oxygen supplies to supply Covid-19 patients are scarce.
13 dead in fire
A fire tragedy also recently occurred in a hospital in Mumbai: 13 Covid 19 patients were killed in a fire in the hospital. As the fire brigade announced, 17 people were being treated when the fire broke out for an initially unexplained cause. Four people survived and were transferred to another hospital in Maharashtra state. The fire has now been extinguished.
