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February 2, 2021

The Current: Canadian snowbird in Mexico calls new quarantine measures ‘punishment’

The federal government's new quarantine plans are an effort to curb non-essential travel, and to keep COVID-19 variants from coming here. We hear from John Morgan, a snowbird who says he has travelled to Mexico for health reasons; and Kelley Lee, professor of global health policy and a Canada research chair in global health governance at Simon Fraser University

Journal Article

The Conversation

February 1, 2021

Why Canada doesn’t know how many COVID-19 cases are linked to travel

There is no routine testing or contact tracing of travellers entering Canada. Only self-identifying symptomatic air travellers testing positive are included in current data. Travellers by land and sea, along with air travellers who are infected but untested or asymptomatic, are not. And no data is being collected on inter-provincial travel beyond detected exposures on domestic flights.

January 28, 2021

Coronavirus: 6.3M travellers entered Canada and didn’t have to quarantine

More than 6.3 million travellers who entered Canada since the start of the novel coronavirus pandemic didn’t have to complete the mandatory 14-day quarantine, according to new statistics provided by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA).

Global News National

January 28, 2021

Coronavirus: 6.3M travellers entered Canada and didn’t have to quarantine

More than 6.3 million travellers who entered Canada since the start of the novel coronavirus pandemic didn’t have to complete the mandatory 14-day quarantine, according to new statistics provided by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA).

The Globe and Mail

January 27, 2021

Manitoba sets domestic COVID-19 travel restrictions, other provinces balk

Manitoba’s decision to broaden domestic travel restrictions this week, as COVID-19 variants spread and Canada’s vaccine delivery slows, is adding pressure to provinces that say they cannot legally limit the mobility of Canadians.

January 26, 2021

Do COVID-19 variants mean we should crack down on interprovincial travel? One province just did

The “window of opportunity” is closing to contain the spread of new, more contagious COVID-19 variants in Canada, health experts say, which leads to the question: Are tough restrictions needed on interprovincial travel?