The Federal Government has authorized additional hotels to accommodate quarantined travellers upon returning to Canada.
Starting today, further preventative measures will take effect for international travellers coming into Canada. Travellers will have to take a second COVID-19 test upon arriving in the country and a third at the end of their mandatory 14-day quarantine.
As they await their results, they will be required to quarantine at a supervised hotel at their own expense. According to the federal government, accommodations will cost $2,000 per person which includes the cost of private tests and the hotel stay.
When the list was first released last week, only one hotel in British Columbia, the Westin Wall Centre Vancouver Airport, had been approved for use. The following four hotels near the YVR Vancouver International Airport have since been added: