COVID-19 India travel loophole: The $4,500 flight path that is helping stranded Canadians get back in the country
29-year-old Shriraj Shroff sits inside the lounge at the Hamad International Airport in Doha while he waits for his flight to Ethiopia. Out of the 14-hour long layover, he still has six more hours to go.
After arriving in Ethiopia, he is going to spend two nights in a hotel while he waits for his RT-PCR test results to come, before finally taking a flight to the Pearson International Airport in Toronto.
The entire journey from India to Toronto is going to take him three days and will cost him more than $4,500 CAD – but he has no choice.
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Workers unload a shipment of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at the FedEx hub at Pearson International Airport in Toronto on Thursday, May 20, 2021. Procurement Minister Anita Anand says Canada is trying to negotiate a deal to start getting doses of Moderna s COVID-19 vaccine from the United States instead of Europe. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston June 04, 2021 - 1:00 AM
OTTAWA - Procurement Minister Anita Anand says Canada is trying to negotiate a deal to start getting doses of Moderna s COVID-19 vaccine from the United States instead of Europe.
All 5.7 million doses delivered to Canada from Moderna so far have come from their production lines in Europe. but the company s shipments to Canada have been spotty and small since April 1.
The two, said Stern, were fully vaccinated by the end of January in Israel.
But he told me although the letters asking that they be permitted to quarantine in their own apartment were “clear,” the federal public health official they dealt with could not have cared less.
“This person was so cold and her actions so calculated,” the 78-year-old said this week. “It was like I was talking to a wall.” Rabbi Moshe Stern, 78. Photo by Supplied
She refused to look at their vaccination papers and kept screaming at them that they needed to go to a hotel, he claimed.