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Passengers on Victoria flight warned about virus exposure

The B.C. Centre for Disease Control is warning anyone aboard a flight that landed in Victoria from Vancouver on July 13 of possible exposure to COVID-19. At least one case of COVID-19 was identified on Air Canada flight 8073.
Victoria Times-Colonist Staff
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The tail of an Air Canada Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft is seen at a hangar at the Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ont., on February 9, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Mark Blinch

The B.C. Centre for Disease Control is warning anyone aboard a flight that landed in Victoria from Vancouver on July 13 of possible exposure to COVID-19.

At least one case of COVID-19 was identified on Air Canada flight 8073. It’s recommended that anyone on the flight self-isolate and monitor themselves for symptoms until July 27.

The B.C. Centre for Disease Control is no longer contacting passengers on affected flights. Instead, the information is posted to its website, bccdc.ca.

At least one case was also identified on a flight that took off from Toronto and landed in Vancouver the same day.

Cases have been identified on nine other domestic flights that landed in B.C. in June and July, as well as six international flights that landed in Vancouver.