Posted: Dec 23, 2020 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: December 23, 2020
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says travellers from abroad should be tested for COVID-19 at Canadian airports.(Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press)
Premier Doug Ford is slamming the federal government for not doing enough to protect Ontario from international travellers, who he suggests are a problematic source of COVID-19 spread in the province.
However, based on the provincial government s own statistics, travel-related COVID-19 cases represent a small number of infections. It s like a tiny, tiny fraction of all the cases that we re seeing in Ontario, said Dr. Isaac Bogoch, an infectious disease physician and member of the Ford government s vaccine distribution task force. So, no, it s not zero, but it certainly is not driving the epidemic in Ontario.. Was in the past, but it isn t right now.