hotel quarantine

Many international students have postponed or cancelled their plans to study in Canada since Ottawa decided last month to limit entry options to the country to just four airports and require international travellers to pay for a mandatory hotel quarantine.

“Extending our quarantine program will provide peace of mind to workers, employers and communities that we are doing everything possible to prevent the spread of COVID-19,” says B.C.'s Agriculture Minister Lana Popham.

A constitutional rights advocacy group is mounting a legal challenge to the federal government's quarantine hotel policy, arguing it infringes on Canadians' fundamental rights.

Canada's new testing and quarantine rules for international air travellers appear to have convinced even more Canadians to stay put in recent weeks.

Several international travellers arriving at Toronto's Pearson International Airport have refused to comply with a new rule requiring a three-day hotel quarantine, local police said on Wednesday, February 24, 2021.

A rule requiring international travellers landing at Ontario's largest airport to take a COVID-19 test came into effect on Monday, February 1, 2021, amid growing concern over vaccine deliveries and new reported cases of contagious COVID-19 variants.