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By Shawn Jeffords
TORONTO Ontario is asking the federal government to impose mandatory three-day quarantines in hotels for travellers entering Canada at land crossings.
Health Minister Christine Elliott and Solicitor General Sylvia Jones say they’re making the request in an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19 in the province.
Travellers arriving at Canada’s international airports currently have to stay in a specially designated hotel for three days before completing a 14-day quarantine at home.
The province says there are reports of international travellers booking return flights into nearby American airports, taking a taxi to a United States-Canada land crossing, and walking or driving across the border.
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That letter said there had been 17 domestic flights in the past two weeks to Toronto’s Person International Airport with possible COVID-19 exposures.
It said have also been potential exposures on flights landing at other Ontario airports, including Ottawa and Hamilton.
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Meanwhile, Ontario’s Long-Term Care COVID-19 Commission is to submit its final report to the provincial government on Friday.
The commission has examined what went wrong in the province’s response to the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
As of Thursday, 3,768 long-term care residents have died of COVID-19 in Ontario.
The system is broken : Ford wants mandatory 3-day hotel quarantine for travellers entering land borders
by Shawn Jeffords, The Canadian Press
Posted Apr 30, 2021 11:40 am EDT
Last Updated Apr 30, 2021 at 4:58 pm EDT
Ontario pushed the federal government Friday to impose tighter restrictions at land borders, with Premier Doug Ford saying the move was needed to address the threat posed by variants of COVID-19.
Ottawa indicated, however, that it would not impose hotel quarantine requirements at land crossings as requested, suggesting those travellers weren’t a major source of infections.
Ford’s call to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came as Ontario continues to deal with high COVID-19 cases, 90 percent of which are now more transmissible variants of concern.
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That letter said there had been 17 domestic flights in the past two weeks to Toronto’s Person International Airport with possible COVID-19 exposures.
It said have also been potential exposures on flights landing at other Ontario airports, including Ottawa and Hamilton.
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Meanwhile, Ontario’s Long-Term Care COVID-19 Commission is to submit its final report to the provincial government on Friday.
The commission has examined what went wrong in the province’s response to the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
As of Thursday, 3,768 long-term care residents have died of COVID-19 in Ontario.