Canada’s ban on flights arriving from the United Kingdom is being lifted, as a new rule that requires all passengers entering Canada to take pre-boarding tests goes into effect today. The measure was first announced on Dec. 31, 2020, and goes into effective at midnight Jan. 7. All travelers must now present proof of a negative COVID-19 test result taken within 72 hours before boarding a plane to Canada, according to a statement of the interim order from Transport Canada. “We have made that decision based on the fact that we have now put in place, since that original ban, a pre-departure testing protocol … so that will replace the ban that existed for the U.K. and it applies, of course, to all countries in the world from which flights may come to Canada,” Transport Minister Marc Garneau said during a press conference on Thursday. Only two types of COVID-19 tests …