Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended his government against criticism that it had not moved fast enough to quarantine travelers, but said they were considering additional measures.
"We are continuing to look at more and I have asked our officials to carefully consider, for example, what the United Kingdom has done very recently about suspending flights from India," Trudeau told reporters.
Although Canada's borders are officially closed, thousands of people, most of them Canadians, still enter the country every week. The Canadian Ministry of Health says that about one percent of international air travelers have tested positive for Covid-19 during the three-day quarantine, but they cannot yet provide data on the number of those who have tested positive after 10 days.
India reported more than 250,000 new cases of COVID-19 daily this week, and doctors are investigating whether the new strain was the cause.
And last December, Canada suspended flights from the United Kingdom for a little over two weeks due to concerns about the British ancestry.
In the past two weeks, 117 international flights arrived with at least one passenger who later tested positive for COVID-19, including 29 from New Delhi, 20 from the United States and 24 from Europe.
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