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“The ban on UK flights, which was going until midnight tonight, will lapse. It will no longer be applicable,” Garneau said during Wednesday’s press conference.
“We have made the decision based on the fact that we have now put in place, since that original ban, a pre-departure testing protocol,” he continued. “That will replace the ban that existed for the UK and it applies, of course, to all countries in the world from which flights may come to Canada.”
The new travel restrictions are set to come into effect on Thursday, January 7, and mandates anyone flying into Canada to show a negative COVID-19 test before boarding.
TORONTO With some morgues running out of space and hospitals facing an explosion in critically ill patients, Canada s COVID-19 caseload rose sharply on Wednesday, while Quebec mulled tighter restrictions that could include the country s first curfew.
Canada has now seen close to 625,000 cases of COVID-19, about 16,300 of them fatal. The bulk of cases has been in the country s two largest provinces, where conditions have been deteriorating rapidly in recent weeks.
Compounding the picture was the still small but growing number of cases related to a novel coronavirus variant first found in the U.K. that is believed to be even more contagious than the original.
Some morgues, ICUs running out of space amid explosive growth in COVID-19 cases
by Colin Perkel, The Canadian Press
Posted Jan 6, 2021 12:20 pm EDT
Last Updated Jan 6, 2021 at 12:28 pm EDT
TORONTO With some morgues running out of space and hospitals facing an explosion in critically ill COVID-19 patients, the federal government was set on Wednesday to announce further measures related to incoming travellers, while Quebec mulled tighter restrictions that could include the country’s first curfew.
Canada has now seen nearly 625,000 cases of COVID-19, about 16,300 of them fatal. The bulk of cases has been in the country’s two largest provinces, where conditions have been deteriorating rapidly in recent weeks.