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.
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford arrives to make an announcement during the daily briefing at Queen s Park in Toronto on Thursday April 1, 2021. The Ontario government is asking Ottawa for enhanced measures for interprovincial travellers as the province grapples with skyrocketing hospitalizations and cases of COVID-19 variants. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
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by The Canadian Press
Last Updated Apr 27, 2021 at 5:09 am ADT
TORONTO The Ontario government is asking Ottawa for enhanced measures for interprovincial travellers as the province grapples with skyrocketing hospitalizations and cases of COVID-19 variants.
In a letter Monday to the federal ministers of health and public safety, Ontario says it has already closed its boundaries with Quebec and Manitoba to non-essential travel, but there are no measures in place to protect provinces from the spread of COVID-19 variants through interprovincial air travel, an area of federal responsibility.
The province is asking for mandatory pre-departure PCR testing for all domestic air travellers entering Ontario, an extension to current rules for international passengers seeking entry into Canada.
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