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Bangor Daily News

September 16, 2021

Canada’s election could affect how Americans cross the border

The outcome of Canada’s Sept. 20 federal election could determine how much access Americans have to that country, given some of the parties’ concerns about current border crossing protocols.

Journal Article

The Conversation

September 13, 2021

COVID-19 and border restrictions: Here’s what the parties’ election platforms say about controlling the fourth wave

As the 2021 federal election winds down, a fourth wave of COVID-19 is underway amid further easing of restrictions for fully vaccinated travellers. As researchers in the Pandemics and Borders Project, we are analyzing how countries can effectively use cross-border measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Journal Article

Think Global Health

September 1, 2021

Rethinking border management and global health security after the pandemic

Border measures will be a more complex and controversial challenge for the post-pandemic world.

Delta variant broke down Australia and China's defenses. Does it spell the end of the zero Covid strategy?

A year and a half since the first Covid-19 cases were identified, many countries in Asia-Pacific feel right back where they started. Now the fresh outbreaks are throwing the zero Covid strategy favored by China and Australia into question, and prompting a larger debate about just how sustainable the approach is.

‘A big chaotic policy mess': Borders expert rails against UK travel rules

A leading expert on international travel during the coronavirus pandemic has described the UK government’s strategy as “a big chaotic policy mess”. Professor Kelley Lee, Canada research chair in Global Health Governance at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, told The Independent: “From a public health risk assessment and mitigation perspective, I would say it is not ‘fit for purpose’.” In June the prime minister claimed in the Commons: “We have the toughest border measures anywhere in the world”.

Winnipeg Free Press

Travellers with mixed vaccine status enter international maze

Nearly 200,000 Manitobans have a mixed COVID-19 vaccination schedule, including about 71,000 people who mixed AstraZeneca/Covishield and either Pfizer or Moderna mRNA vaccines, and another 127,000 who took a combination of the two mRNA shots. Across Canada, a total of 3,139,559 people have mixed vaccine types and brands. Depending on a person’s travel destination, the immunity of those doubly dosed with a combination of vaccine types and brands may not be recognized.