Adds particulars MONTREAL, Dec 31 (Reuters) - Canada would
Adds particulars
MONTREAL, Dec 31 (Reuters) – Canada would require air vacationers aged 5 and as much as check unfavorable for COVID-19 earlier than arrival, beginning Jan. 7, Transport Minister Marc Garneau stated on Thursday, because the nation tightens journey restrictions amid hovering circumstances of the coronavirus.
Passengers might want to have a unfavorable polymerase chain response (PCR) COVID-19 check taken inside 72 hours previous to their scheduled departure to Canada, the nation stated on Wednesday, after social media pictures of maskless Canadian vacationers overseas prompted requires stricter measures to curb the virus.
Documentation exhibiting a unfavorable consequence have to be proven to the airline earlier than boarding a flight to Canada, Garneau stated in a press release that gives extra particulars in regards to the requirement, just like the beginning date.
Pre-departure testing won’t get rid of a compulsory 14-day quarantine for arrivals, in a blow to Canada’s battered airways, which had been pushing for a unfavorable consequence to be accepted as an alternative choice to such restrictions.
“The announcement solely addresses one aspect of the trail ahead: the utilization of testing to assist additional defend public well being,” stated Mike McNaney, president of Nationwide Airways Council of Canada, which represents giant carriers like Air Canada AC.TO.
“We strongly imagine it should even be utilized together with measures to scale back quarantine ranges,” he stated in a press release on Wednesday.
The brand new measures add to Canada’s current restrictions, which usually deny non-essential foreigners entry and the place residents getting back from overseas are required to quarantine.
Canada may also improve surveillance to make sure vacationers coming into Canada full their quarantine, Garneau stated.
Canada reported on Thursday a complete of 572,982 circumstances of COVID-19, as new circumstances surged in its most populous provinces, Ontario and Quebec.
On Tuesday, Quebec urged the federal authorities to require COVID-19 testing for residents getting back from year-end holidays, as hospitals wrestle with rising circumstances within the province.
(Reporting by Allison Lampert in Montreal; Modifying by Leslie Adler and Jonathan Oatis)
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