Canada's requirements apply to all travelers aged 2 and older on Canadian-bound flights originating from the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong or Macao.
and the United States who test positive more than 10 days before a flight may provide the airline with documentation of recovery in lieu of a negative test result.said Saturday it would implement a pilot project on wastewater testing from aircraft with Vancouver airport, and expand such an existing project with Toronto Pearson airport, to assess COVID-19 prevalence in various parts of the world. Samples are sequenced to monitor for novel variants, the agency said.
it was considering sampling wastewater taken from international aircraft to track any emerging new COVID variants.had kept its borders all but shut for three years, imposing a strict regime of lockdowns and relentless testing. It abruptly reversed course on Dec. 7 toward living with the virus, and infections have spread rapidly in recent weeks.has rejected criticism of its COVID-19 statistics and said it expects mutations to be more infectious but less severe.
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