Sagasti said no direct flights from the United Kingdom had entered the country since December 15, when flights from Europe restarted. But health authorities were monitoring passengers from Britain who had entered through connecting flights, he said.
Separately, health officials said they had seen no sign yet of a fast-spreading mutated COVID-19 variant that first emerged in Britain and prompted many nations to impose travel bans.
Canada is implementing enhanced measures to screen travelers from Britain, including those arriving from other nations, its public safety minister said on Tuesday.
He added that so far 2,252,876 samples have been tested which diagnosed 206,489 cases, of the 89 percent or 184,192 patients have recovered, including 2590 overnight.
The new variant of the virus, which has quickly become the dominant variant in cases of COVID-19 in parts of southern England, has led to several countries cutting travel ties with Britain.
There is also a Chinese visa centre in the Scottish capital Edinburgh, which has been operating under reduced hours since November.
The package includes $892 billion for coronavirus relief plus federal government funding to also avert a government shutdown - together worth about $2.3 trillion.
The wide-ranging bill includes $600 payments to most Americans and additional money to the millions of people thrown out of work during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The European Union is gearing up for a vaccination campaign of unprecedented scale following regulatory approval for the shot on Monday.
The EU deliveries amount to more than half the 20 million doses expected to be available in the United States before the end of the year, BioNTech's chief business officer.
The petitioner claimed that pigs and monkeys DNAs have been added to the vaccine.
Khokar’s legal representative argued that if they get vaccinated then a chip will be attached to their bodies and the foreign countries will be able to monitor our movement through artificial intelligence.
The Asian Infrastructure and Investment Bank (AIIB) in its latest report expressed concern that many projects will inevitably be delayed for years, rather than months, given the large financing needs and increased uncertainty about future profitability.
President Trump berated the relief package, stating that "Congress found plenty of money for foreign countries, lobbyists and special interests, while sending the bare minimum to the American people who need it".
The government spending package contains tens of millions of dollars allocated for “gender” and “democracy” programs in Pakistan.
In an emailed statement on Monday, Citgo said "maintenance plans for our Corpus Christi refinery include a turnaround that is currently scheduled and budgeted for the fourth quarter of 2021."
US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures dropped 30 cents, or 0.6%, to $47.67 a barrel at 0156 GMT, while Brent crude futures fell 26 cents, or 0.5%, to $50.65 a barrel.
NAB's Strickland noted that news on the virus has been encouraging with community transmission cases falling to eight on Tuesday from 15 on Monday and 30 the day before.
Progressive New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said earlier Monday that legislators still did not have copies of the more than 5,550-page bill.