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Almost one third of all air travellers arriving in Canada have been allowed to skip the mandatory stay in a government-approved quarantine hotel, a rate of exemption from the controversial COVID-19 control measure that could undermine its public health goals.
About 88,000 arriving international air travellers were deemed exempt from the expensive hotel stay requirement, according to the most recent data from the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). The agency would not provide a breakdown of the reasons for these exemptions.
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Almost one third of all air travellers arriving in Canada have been allowed to skip the mandatory stay in a government-approved quarantine hotel, a rate of exemption from the controversial COVID-19 control measure that could undermine its public health goals.
About 88,000 arriving international air travellers were deemed exempt from the expensive hotel stay requirement, according to the most recent data from the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). The agency would not provide a breakdown of the reasons for these exemptions.
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Even at this point in the pandemic, to talk of our impending liberation is to risk being admonished that we’re not out of the woods yet. Cautious Canadians will be saying that months after we’ve left the woods, burned them down and salted the accursed earth on which they grew. But you can see the miracle happening: Case rates aren’t plummeting in any province; in most they have plateaued higher than we would like, and in Ontario they are noticeably creeping back up again. And yet fatality rates are plummeting, just as they should when you vaccinate the most vulnerable: On January 26, the rolling seven-day average of COVID-19 deaths nationwide was 162; on Wednesday it was 32.
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