OTTAWA The federal government is imposing a 30-day ban on all commercial and private flights from India and Pakistan effective Thursday at 11:30 p.m. EST, as COVID-19 infections continue to surge in those countries. Ministers of health, immigration, transport, public safety, and intergovernmental affairs delivered the update in a joint press conference Thursday evening, as the government faces pressure to curb variant spread domestically. Transport Minister Omar Alghabra said they are imposing the temporary ban as more passengers arrive in Canada with positive test results from those two countries. “Given the higher number of cases of COVID-19 detected in air passengers arriving in Canada from India and Pakistan, Transport Canada is issuing a notice to airmen, or NOTAM, to halt direct passenger air traffic from those countries,” said Alghabra.
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A recent study shows that people in quarantine are twice as likely to have suicidal thoughts.
Vulnerable populations
Front-line health-care providers are also at increased risks of mental health distress. Furthermore, usual adaptive and coping resources may be decreased less social support from friends and family, limited or no access to primary care, community support, health-care services and social recreational activities. People with pre-existing mental illness are more likely to experience deteriorated physical and mental health. (Unsplash/Tim Mossholder)
The impact of diminished coping resources is particularly critical to vulnerable populations experiencing pre-existing social, economic and health inequities. Elderly people are cut off from supportive programs and in-home services, and those in long-term care homes have had family visits restricted.
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And a recent wave of transgender representation in the media including Canadian photographer Wynne Neilly s Time magazine photo of Elliot Page is beginning to challenge
conventional beauty norms in the face of alarming rates of hate crimes against gender-diverse people.
Even Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke about the importance of representation, tweeting that we should continue to #SeekMore representation in the stories on our screens, after
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