Tuesday, February 2, 2021

We’ve been asking Canadians to avoid all non-essential travel since March 14th 2020.

Throughout the pandemic we’ve put in place measures to protect Canadians from COVID-19. And we know that our travel measures are working, but as new and more infectious variants of the virus emerge, our government is taking further action to strengthen measures to keep Canadians safe.

New travel measures include:

  • Until April 30, Air Canada, WestJet, Sunwing, and Air Transat will suspend air services to sun destinations, including to the Caribbean and Mexico.
  • Starting this week, we are strengthening measures to better control international flights by reducing them to only four airports – Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary, and Montreal.
  • As soon as possible in the coming weeks, there will be mandatory PCR testing at the airport for people returning to Canada. At an expense of up to $2,000, travellers will have to wait up to three days at an approved hotel for their results. This is on top of our existing test requirements.
  • In the coming week, non-essential travellers will be required to show a negative test before entry at the land border with the US, and we are working to set up additional testing requirements.

Learn more:
https://www.canada.ca/…/government-of-canada-introduces…