The federal government has no intention of dropping the controversial ArriveCan app because it gives the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) key health information about travellers who test positive for COVID-19 through testing at airports and land borders, senior government sources tell CTV News.
PHAC uses data that travellers enter in the ArriveCan app to identify the vaccination status and destinations of people who test positive as a part of the mandatory random testing program at Canada’s borders.
Those statistical parameters set by PHAC are based in part on global epidemiology trends, which a senior government source admits can make travellers coming to Canada from countries that have a low vaccination rate or are experiencing an outbreak, more likely to be flagged for mandatory random testing.
“This could possibly give Canada some intelligence as to what circulating variants of concern there may be in other parts of the world, which can be very helpful information,” said Bogoch.
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