OTTAWA — The federal government announced plans Thursday to start randomly testing travellers at Canada's four main airports for COVID-19 again next week,
OTTAWA — The federal government announced plans Thursday to start randomly testing travellers at Canada’s four main airports for COVID-19 again next week, but intends to move the actual swabbing off-site.
All tests, for vaccinated, unvaccinated and partially vaccinated travellers, will be completed outside of airports. In a statement Thursday, the roundtable called the move to resume testing “unfairly targets Canada’s tourism sector and negatively impacts Canadian and international travellers.” “It’s important to know about this in order to formulate other recommendations,” Njoo said in French at a press conference where he announced the approval of a pediatric COVID-19 vaccine.
“Only now, to avoid the image of chaos at airports, travellers will face the additional inconvenience of being forced to travel off-site to get their tests,” several critics, including health critic Michael Barrett and transport critic Melissa Lantsman, said in a joint statement
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