Canadians continue on to fly to Hawaii inspite of COVID-19 travel advisories

VANCOUVER (News 1130) – It appears to be B.C.’s snowbirds are continuing to fly out of country, regardless of warnings to steer clear of non-necessary vacation amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hawaii’s online COVID-19 stats clearly show 1,260 persons arrived from Vancouver Global Airport by means of the month of January.

Of all those travellers, 793 declared they have been on family vacation or travelling for enjoyment, 125 have been airline crew members, and 121 men and women had been flying to the point out to take a look at pals or family.

With new journey mandates, it is feasible the number of travellers to Hawaii will go down.

In addition to demonstrating a negative PCR test just before boarding a flight for Canada, travellers will soon also be necessary to consider a test on arrival. The new necessities suggest these arriving passengers will have to quarantine in a government-selected resort for up to a few days at their personal cost when they await test final results.

People who check destructive for COVID-19 will be permitted to continue the remainder of their two-7 days isolation at residence although those people who exam beneficial will be taken to a governing administration-designated facility to complete it there.

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Meanwhile, starting up Feb. 3, global flights will be restricted to 4 airports across Canada — in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, and Calgary.

“Our authorities proceeds to strongly advise towards non-crucial travel exterior Canada, and has executed several actions to shield the overall health of Canadians in our transportation process,” Minister of Transportation Omar Alghabra claimed. “The enlargement of the flight limits is based on decisive, community health and fitness rationale from the Public Health and fitness Company of Canada to more secure Canadians from the health impacts of COVID-19.”

As aspect of recent alterations, 4 key Canadian airlines — Air Canada, WestJet, Sunwing, and Air Transat — have cancelled all flights to Mexico and the Caribbean. These cancellations are in effect until finally April 30 and appear forward of spring break, when many Canadians usually journey to people sunlight places.

There have been no cancellations for destinations in the U.S. as element of these actions.