No new updates were made to the “Risk Levels” and “Safety and Security” sections of the Canadian government’s travel advisory for India, The Hindu has learned. The official Canadian response in this regard came following Indian media reports that claimed that Ottawa in a “tit for tat” advisory for India, had urged nationals to avoid border states like Gujarat and Punjab.
“The information in the ‘Risk Level’ and ‘Safety and Security’ sections of the Travel Advisory has not been recently updated and has been in place for a long period of time, and publicly available,” said a High Commission of Canada Spokesperson on September 29, 2022 and added, “The update made on September 27 was related only to the ‘Health’ section and more specifically to the ‘COVID-19 and International Travel’ and ‘Monkeypox: Advice for travellers’ sub-sections.”
The clarification was called for as a set of media reports had alleged that the mention of “Punjab” and “Gujarat” in the travel advisory was added recently. This was categorically denied by the Canadian side.
