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Canada's Ontario, Quebec urge federal gov't to cut inbound int'l flights

OTTAWA, Apr 23 (Xinhua) Ontario and Quebec on Thursday urged the Canadian government to cut inbound international flights and impose greater restrictions at the Canada-U.S. border as COVID-19 variants continue to spread.
"We are concerned about the growing number of cases attributed to variants, which arrived in Canada through international travel. We are writing to you to request that the federal government take further measures to limit the spread of the virus," Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Quebec Premier Francois Legault said in a letter to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday.
Ontario reported 2,810 new cases of the B.1.1.7 variant on Thursday. The total case count for that variant now stands at 44,205 while five new cases of the B.1.351 variant were confirmed, and so the total case count rose to 113. In addition, the province added six more cases of the P.1 variant, which brings its total number of cases to 218.
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