Canada to require three-day quarantine for returning travelers, suspends flights south
Updated Jan 29, 2021;
Posted Jan 29, 2021
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau holds a news conference at Rideau Cottage in Ottawa on Friday, Jan. 22, 2021.Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP
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TORONTO (AP) Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday announced stricter restrictions on travelers in response to new, likely more contagious variants of the novel coronavirus including making it mandatory for travelers to quarantine in a hotel at their own expense when they arrive in Canada and suspending airline service to Mexico and all Caribbean destinations until April 30.
Trudeau said in addition to the pre-boarding test Canada already requires, the government will be introducing mandatory PCR testing at the airport for people returning to Canada.
Canada to quarantine travelers in hotels, suspend flights south
The move to require a hotel stay upon return is meant to discourage vacations as people would not want to quarantine at a hotel at their own expense upon return. Author: ROB GILLIES (Associated Press) Published: 9:52 AM CST January 29, 2021 Updated: 11:45 AM CST January 29, 2021
TORONTO, ON Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday announced stricter restrictions on travelers in response to new, likely more contagious variants of the novel coronavirus including making it mandatory for travelers to quarantine in a hotel at their own expense when they arrive in Canada and suspending airline service to Mexico and all Caribbean destinations until April 30.
Canada to quarantine travelers in hotels, suspend flights south
The move to require a hotel stay upon return is meant to discourage vacations as people would not want to quarantine at a hotel at their own expense upon return. Author: ROB GILLIES (Associated Press) Published: 10:52 AM EST January 29, 2021 Updated: 12:45 PM EST January 29, 2021
TORONTO, ON Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday announced stricter restrictions on travelers in response to new, likely more contagious variants of the novel coronavirus including making it mandatory for travelers to quarantine in a hotel at their own expense when they arrive in Canada and suspending airline service to Mexico and all Caribbean destinations until April 30.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau holds a news conference at Rideau Cottage in Ottawa on Friday, January 22, 2021. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)
The Caribbean s travel and tourism sector was dealt another potentially devastating blow on Friday when Canada s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the suspension of flights to all Caribbean destinations and Mexico.
This travel ban will stay in place until April 30, 2021, with Jamaica, Antigua and Barbuda, St Kitts and Nevis, Turks and Caicos, Anguilla, Aruba and the Bahamas most likely to be affected.
The announcement was made amid mounting concerns about new, likely more contagious variants of COVID-19.
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