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Canada banned direct passenger flights from India and Pakistan on April 22 for 30 days amid rising COVID-19 cases and concerns about mutations of the novel coronavirus.
Many Canadians are stranded in India due to this cancellation of flights. Meanwhile, Hong Kong and New Zealand banned flights from India.
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I was in India in February. My 80-year-old mother got a hip injury and I was there to see her. The Canadian government introduced some stricter measures for international travellers in order to curb another COVID-19 spike. Travellers must provide proof of a negative COVID-19 molecular test taken up to 72 hours before their scheduled departure time.
OTTAWA, ON, April 30, 2021 /CNW/ - The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today issued the following statement on the tragedy at Mount Meron, Israel, that .
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MONTREAL At least two Montrealers are among the 45 killed in a stampede at a religious festival on Israel’s Mount Meron Friday. Members of the local Jewish community confirmed that the two victims were singer Shraga Gestetner and 21-year-old Dovi Steinmetz. Shraga Gestetner was a great family man, a great community man, a very talented singer, said Mayer Feig, from Montreal s Orthodox Jewish community. Feig said his community has lost a talented and dedicated man in Gestetner.
Montrealer Shraga Gestetner was among the victims in the stampede in Israel. (Photo: ArutzShevaTV) Gestetner composed a number of albums before stopping at the height of his career to help the vulnerable in the Orthodox community, Feig added.
CALGARY India is battling record-setting COVID-19 infections and related deaths and some Calgarians who travelled there are having a tough time returning home since Canada halted incoming passenger flights from that country. Sangeeta Sharma admits she knew she was taking a chance when she landed in India on March 18
th but at that time numbers were tracking down. The president of NIWE Academy, a cosmetology school in Calgary, says she travelled to India for a business trip to finish a project that had been on hold because of the pandemic. Sharma says she contracted COVID-19 a week in to her trip. She quarantined for 14 days and says she has since recovered. She says cases started to surge about ten days after she arrived.