Ottawa drops specific COVID-19 screening for travellers from Brazil as variant spread throughout British Columbia

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Ottawa eases travel restrictions as COVID-19 variants spread throughout British Columbia

JONATHAN HAYWARD/The Canadian Press

This week B.C. began to cancel scheduled surgeries as the variants of concern drive caseloads to record levels. On Wednesday, the Alberta government announced that Calgary schools are shifting to at-home learning for Grades 7 to 12 because of risingThe enhanced screening measures for people who have been in Brazil were implemented on March 31. The government removed references to the measures from the federal government’s travel health notices late on Tuesday.

At this point, added screening for travel from Brazil will not help slow the spread of the P.1 variant, which now dominates in the Vancouver Coastal health region, she said in an interview Wednesday. Epidemiologist Colin Furness, a professor at the University of Toronto’s School of Public Health, said Canada missed the opportunity to try to keep out the variants of concern in December, when it first grounded flights from Britain in response to concerns about the B.1.1.7 variant. “Within minutes or hours, Air Canada was taking those passengers and routing them through Frankfurt, Boston, and New York to Toronto. We should have drawn a line in the sand, at that time.

 

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He's trying to kill Canadians. We know he answers to Beijing - perhaps he's been ordered to take down North America.

We're governed by traitors.

This is why people should ignore governments. Period. Turn off the MSM Turn off government Go about your day.

Huh?

Over a year of this and we still can't even cover the basics. Slow vaccine roll out is one thing but our governments - Federal and Provincial - aren't taking the necessary steps to protect Canadians in the meantime.

More variants more travels coming in wow there is a good idea

Sorry javeedsukhera you were saying about P1?

Trudeau still can't figure out the border. Fail after fail.

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