OTTAWA, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Wednesday his government will extend the ban on passenger flights from the United Kingdom until Jan. 6 to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The extension is in response to the emergence of a new variant of COVID-19 in Britain which health researchers say is more transmissible than the variant currently dominant in Canada. The ban was initially set to expire in 72 hours.
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