The announcement of variant of COVID-19 circulating in the United Kingdom has imposed travel bans to & from U.K. by many countries including Canada. The federal Govt. made an announcement that it is extending its U.K. travel ban by a period of two weeks. This is all part of the Govt. of Canada’s efforts for the prevention of a new variant of Corona virus & its older version.
Regarding the passenger flights, the announcement was made by the current PM of Canada, Mr. Justin Trudeau. It said that all flights from Canada to the United Kingdom will remain suspended until 6th of Jan 2021. The initial suspension of the flights from and to U.K. was for 72 hours on Monday. Hence, this happened after the announcement news for the new variant went into circulation. Canada holds bilateral trade and travel relationships with the United Kingdom. Ironically, as Canada is one of the oldest monarchies of the Great Britain. Queen Elizabeth of United Kingdom is the current monarch of Canada and is Queen of United Kingdom since 1952.
INTERNATIONAL REACTION TO TRAVEL BAN WITH UNITED KINGDOM
World Health Organisation or WHO is the body upon whose request the restrictions has been imposed. Furthermore, holds very serious efforts of the Health Governing body against Corona virus. Apart from Canada there are almost dozens of countries that have cut down all sort of travel with United Kingdom. Mexico, another country from North America hasn’t cut down any sort of travel with U.K. Taken as a bright and a positive gesture from a North American nation. The motive of the travel ban is to evaluate the dangers associated with the COVID variant. On top of this, how fast the dangers can be catered with in short-time interval.
Fortunately, there has been no recorded cases as yet of this variant in Canada and its territories. This is mainly due to the health & Safety efforts of the Canadian public and the Canadian Govt. with respect to the COVID-19 virus. According to health officials from London, the new variant appeared to spread quickly through the population in UK.
IS VACCINE A PERFECT PROTECTION FROM COVID-19 VARIANT?
According to the researchers from Health Canada. Unfortunately, there is no vaccine that can be a 100% protection from COVID-19 or its variant. It is mandatory to follow certain precautions as the effectiveness is not guaranteed at 100%.
However, according to the CDC, there are estimates that 37% of CV infections don’t cause symptoms. The trial for the Pfizer vaccine looked only at whether the vaccines prevented symptomatic infections. Pfizer vaccines are one of the most effective ones in terms of treatment and protection from Corona virus. Moderna is the other vaccine that is a bit less popular and effective in terms of protection from Corona virus. As far as the clinical trials are concerned both of them provided approximately 92.5% of protection. This is huge numbers as there are many cases in USA and UK that are being termed as positive on a daily basis with Corona virus. In Canada, however, the quantities are a bit less as compared to their neighbouring countries Canada and Mexico.