Additional coronavirus cases identified on flights in Vancouver

An Air Canada aircraft on a runway. (Shutterstock)

Additional flights have been identified as having potential exposure to COVID-19, including a domestic flight to Toronto and an international flight from San Francisco.

The Government of Canada has added a trip from Vancouver to Toronto to its flight exposure list. Any person who flew on flight number AC112 on July 13 should self-isolate and monitor for symptoms for 14 days following the flight.

Specifically, the infected persons sat between rows 27 and 33.

The flight information has not been posted on the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) website at this time.

Eleven other domestic flights have been confirmed to have carried the virus. This includes flights that have departed from Montreal, Toronto, Kelowna, and Vancouver, as well as flights that have arrived in Ottawa, Edmonton, Calgary, Montreal, Victoria, and Vancouver.

Airline	Flight Number	Date	Origin	Destination	Affected Seats
WestJet	460	July 2	Kelowna	Calgary	n/a
WestJet	348	July 5	Kelowna	Edmonton	n/a
WestJet	186	July 5	Vancouver	Edmonton	n/a
Air Canada	8421	July 6	Kelowna	Vancouver	n/a
Air Canada	311	July 8	Monreal	Vancouver	n/a
Air Canada	111	July 13	Toronto	Vancouver	n/a
Air Canada	8073	July 13	Vancouver	Victoria	n/a
Air Canada	112	July 13	Vancouver	Toronto	27 to 33

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International flights with confirmed COVID-19 cases

The Government of Canada has also added another international flight that has had exposure to the virus.

On July 14, an infected passenger flew on Air Canada flight number AC561 from San Francisco to Vancouver.

It’s unclear where exactly the infected person sat on the plane. This marks the third affected international flight arriving in Vancouver this month.

Airline	Flight Number	Date	Origin	Destination	Affected Seats
American Airlines	1270	July 6	Dallas	Vancouver	Unknown
United Airlines	375	July 7	San Fransisco	Vancouver	19 to 25
Air Canada	651	July 14	San Francisco	Vancouver	Unknown

As per the federal government, if you think you might have coronavirus, use the self-assessment tool to find out what to do. And always follow the recommendations of your local public health authority.

“We recommend that flight passengers self-isolate and monitor for symptoms for 14 days following the flight,” the BC CDC said previously.

The announcement of the new cases comes after Air Canada published an open letter asking that blanket restrictions and quarantines be replaced with “more proportionate” restrictions to control the spread of the virus, ultimately resulting in a “measured restart of aviation.”