Syed Khan – 21 August 2021,
The government of India has written to the Canadian government expressing its “disappointment” over the continuing ban of direct commercial flights between the two countries. The flight ban was first imposed on April 22 and Transport Canada announced it had been further extended till September 21. The April decision had been predicated on concerns over the rising Covid-19 cases in India, particularly the spread of the Delta variant.
In note verbales, or diplomatic communications, sent to Global Affairs Canada, the country’s foreign ministry, India’s high commission in Ottawa stated that the extension had “caused concern and anxiety” among nationals of the two countries seeking to travel between them.
The Canadian government’s ban prevents all direct passenger flights from India. The Indian government is seeking resumption of those flights and scrapping the mandatory RT-PCR tests required for travelers from India who transit through third countries.
The ongoing restrictions, it has argued, “adversely affected” nearly 200,000 Indian students looking at starting post-secondary education in Canada and caused “great inconvenience” to the nearly 1.6 million-strong Indo-Canadian community.
It said that early return to normalcy in global mobility was in the interest of both countries. It also pointed out that India has administered over 570 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines, its declining positivity rate and expansion of its testing regime as well the proof of vaccination available digitally via the Cowin app.
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