More Than 75% Of People Entering Canada Since March Have Avoided Quarantine

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More than 4.6 million people have arrived in Canada since the border closed but only 1.1 million were considered non-essential and forced to quarantine.

“I think we all want to get things back to normal as quickly as possible. We also know that in order to get things back to normal we have to control the spread of“At this point, the risks are still too great to reopen the border.”An Air Canada Airbus A320 jet takes off from Vancouver International Airport on Oct. 3, 2020 on a cross-border flight between Vancouver and Los Angeles.

Essential travellers are asked to wear masks when they can’t physically distance from others, and medical workers are asked not to treat people over the age of 65 for 14 days. PHAC follows up with most asked to quarantine with live or automated calls, and has asked RCMP or local police to verify the whereabouts of 247,137 people asked to quarantine.

 

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Is the implication that these essential folks not really essential. Where is the proof?

Read the article! 75% of the travellers are truck drivers and airline personnel. HuffPost posting inflammatory headline for no good reason.

Poor people are 'icky'

'Health Canada data covering 80 per cent of the confirmed cases of COVID-19 to date shows about 4.4 per cent of them involved recent travellers or people who had come into contact with them.'

Americans can stay where they are!!!

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