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Impact of travel restrictions in B.C.

To Stop COVID, We Need ‘Gold Standard’ Border Control

So what does a gold standard look like? Well, it’s not a single measure, but a comprehensive package of interventions applied in a preventive and timely way that routinely includes airtight quarantines, rapid or PCR testing and border bubbles (free travel in COVID-free zones) as well as good contact tracing.

Premier says questions around enforcing B.C. travel restrictions will be answered soon

Effectiveness of travel bans in British Columbia

Toronto-area startup Switch Health accused of fumbling Canada’s COVID-19 border testing

John Ivison: Shouting talking points is no substitute for proper COVID border policy

While non-essential travel was restricted at the Canada-U.S. land crossing, arrivals at the 117 two-way land crossings could self-quarantine or isolate because there were insufficient resources to screen, test and quarantine new arrivals. The option of reducing the number of crossings, in similar fashion to the way international arrivals were limited to four airports, was never implemented. Even when new variants began to appear, the measures adopted were ineffectual, because the government fell back on the misleading data that Blair quoted – that international travel is responsible for less than two per cent of cases.