VANCOUVER

Flights to Vancouver, Victoria added to COVID-19 exposures list

Ian Holliday

Published Friday, October 16, 2020 1:11PM PDT Last Updated Friday, October 16, 2020 7:43PM PDT

A flight attendant wears personal protective equipment as they walk through the back part of a near empty plane from Calgary which landed in Vancouver, B.C., Tuesday, June 9, 2020. (THE CANADIAN PRESS / Jonathan Hayward)

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VANCOUVER -- Several flights that landed in Vancouver and Victoria have been added to the B.C. Centre for Disease Control's list of COVID-19 exposures.

The BCCDC added two of the flights to the list Thursday afternoon, and added three more Friday.

Details of the affected flights are as follows:

Oct. 7: Air Canada flight 127 from Toronto to Vancouver (rows 18 to 22)
Oct. 9: Air Canada flight 115 from Toronto to Vancouver (rows 1 to 4)
Oct. 10: WestJet flight 195 from Calgary to Victoria (rows 5 to 11)
Oct. 11: WestJet flight 195 from Calgary to Victoria (rows 1 to 7)
Oct. 14: Air Canada flight 241 from Edmonton to Vancouver (rows 24 to 28)

Passengers who were seated in the rows listed are considered to be at greater risk of contracting COVID-19 because of their proximity to a known case.

Anyone who was on any of the flights listed on the BCCDC website is advised to self-monitor for symptoms of the coronavirus. If any develop, they should self-isolate and seek testing, according to the BCCDC.

Health officials in B.C. no longer directly contact people who were seated near someone with a confirmed case of COVID-19. Instead, health authorities post notices online about flights with confirmed cases.