* Canada announced stricter restrictions on travelers including a mandatory $2,000 hotel quarantine on Friday
* Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also banned all flights to Mexico and the Caribbean until April 30
* Canada now also requires tests at the airport on arrival with international travel only allowed into Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal and Calgary airports
* Travelers will be forced to quarantine in a hotel at a cost of $2,000 Canadian or until the result arrives
* Following a negative result they will quarantine at home, with expanded 'surveillance and enforcement' and another test on the tenth day
* Those with positive tests will be immediately required to quarantine in government facilities
* Trudeau said the extra precautions measure will take effect 'in the coming weeks' but the flights suspension is 'immediate'
* Mexico's Foreign Relations Department said it hope the ban would be reversed soon to avoid a 'deep economic crisis'
Canada announced stricter restrictions on travelers including a mandatory $2,000 hotel quarantine, multiple tests, increased 'surveillance' and banning all flight to Mexico and the Caribbean.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the new measures on Friday in response to the more contagious variants of the novel coronavirus.
Starting next week, all international passenger flights to Canada must land at four airports: Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary and Montreal.
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WNU Editor: Too little and too late. The problem with these restriction is that if you want to go to Mexico, you simply fly to another destination and from there go to Mexico. And if you want to return to Canada from Mexico. You fly to another destination and from there you then fly to Canada. All travelers entering Canada will still be subject to a covid-19 test, 3 days in a hotel, and subsequent 11 days at home. And it is not going to be cheap .... Travellers to pay ‘more than $2K’ for new mandatory COVID-19 hotel quarantine, Trudeau says (Global News).
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