Forty flights land with Covid carriers aboard
Federal numbers show that in December, 40 flights landing at Trudeau had someone aboard who tested positive for Covid-19.
The last 24 hours broke a Quebec record, with 2,247 new cases diagnosed, and 74 deaths.
Update: Canada has extended its embargo on flights from the UK for another 72 hours while Justin Trudeau reminds us that this is no time for trips abroad.
Thomas H 12:41 on 2020-12-23 Permalink
With YUL averaging 110 flights and 8,000 passengers per day these days, those numbers seem fairly on track with the amount of active cases in Quebec/Canada. The question is: “is there transmission to other passengers on board?”. With universal mask-wearing and air that recycles every three minutes, I suspect the answer is “not very much”.