“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.