Canada Announces New Quarantine Limits, Suspends Flights to Mexico, Caribbean

In response to the new COVID-19 variant circulating all over the planet, Primary Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Friday a host of new quarantine regulations for those people moving into Canada.

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Increasing on the country’s present tests requirement, which mandates that vacationers exam unfavorable for COVID-19 three days ahead of their arrival or return to Canada, travelers will now be expected to check once again on arrival at the airport.

They will then have to quarantine in an permitted resort for up to three times — at their possess expenditure — although awaiting their examination benefits, the Affiliated Press described. Trudeau stated that charges may well include up to more than $2,000 CAD, which will deal with the PCR test, security, food, and actions to continue to keep lodge workforce harmless.

Inhabitants who check negative will then be in a position to complete quarantine at property “less than significantly enhanced surveillance and enforcement,” Trudeau claimed. Any one who checks positive will have to quarantine a govt facility.

Canada already necessitates travelers to quarantine for 14 days on arrival.

In addition, Canada’s major airways, including Air Canada, WestJet, Sunwing, and Air Transat, will suspend flights to the Caribbean and Mexico from Sunday until April 30. Furthermore, all flights should land at Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary, or Montreal airports.

“[The airlines] will be earning preparations with their consumers who are at present on a excursion in these regions to organize their return flights,” Trudeau explained of the flight cancellations.

The key minister also pointed out the risk of new screening necessities for those touring by means of the U.S.-Canada land border, which is presently shut to specific vacationers until finally Feb. 21.

“We will also, in the coming months, be demanding nonessential tourists to demonstrate a destructive check prior to entry at the land border with the U.S., and we are doing the job to stand up supplemental screening needs for land journey,” Trudeau said.

New variants of COVID-19 — said to be extra contagious — have emerged in the U.K., Brazil, and South Africa, and a couple circumstances have given that designed their way to the United States.

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