Published 2 years ago

Canada dropping travel mask mandate and ending COVID-19 border and quarantine restrictions

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Canada is dropping all COVID-19 border restrictions for anyone entering the country. The ArriveCan application is also being made optional. The mask mandate and health check requirements for travellers on planes and trains are also being lifted. The government says modelling indicates that Canada has "largely passed" the peak of the Omicron wave of infections.

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Times of India

Canada won't require masks on planes, drops vaccine mandate

"The removal of border measures has been facilitated by a number of factors, including modelling that indicates that Canada has largely passed the peak of the Omicron BA.4- and BA.5-fuelled wave, Canada's high vaccination rates, lower hospitalization and death rates, as well as the availability and use of vaccine boosters (including new bivalent formulation), rapid tests, and treatments for COVID-19," the government said in a release.

2 years ago·India

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CTV News

Canada dropping travel mask mandate and ending COVID-19 border and quarantine restrictions

Canada is dropping all COVID-19 border restrictions for anyone entering the country, including: proof of COVID-19 vaccination, quarantine and isolation requirements as well as all pre- or on-arrival COVID-19 testing. The federal government is also making the ArriveCan application optional, and is lifting the mask mandate on planes and trains.

2 years ago·Canada

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The Independent

Canada drops all Covid border restrictions

The measures will go into effect on Saturday 1 October

2 years ago·London, United Kingdom

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Reuters

Canada to remove all COVID travel restrictions from Oct 1

Canada will drop all COVID-19 restrictions for travelers from Oct. 1, including vaccination and masking requirements for flights and trains, the government said on Monday.

2 years ago·United Kingdom

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Associated Press News

Canada won't require masks on planes, drops vaccine mandate

TORONTO (AP) — The Canadian government announced Monday it will no longer require people to wear masks on planes to guard against COVID-19.. Transport Canada said the existing rules for masks will come off Oct.

2 years ago·United States

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