Canada Is Dropping its COVID Test Requirement for Vaccinated Visitors
byDaniel McCarthy/
Starting April 1, Canada will no longer require that fully vaccinated inbound travelers provide proof of a negative COVID-19 test in order to avoid quarantine.
如果随机测试随机测试,则可能仍需要完全接种疫苗的旅行者进行测试,但是在等待测试结果的同时,不需要隔离。
Unvaccinated, or partially vaccinated, travelers aged 5-years and up will still need to get tested before travel with either an antigen test administered by an accredited lab taken within 24-hours of arrival or a negative molecular test taken within 72 hours of arrival. A previous positive molecular test taken at least 10 calendar days, and no more than 180 calendar days, before their departure time is also accepted.
所有travelers, vaccinated or not, will still need to go through the steps on the ArrivaCAN app before their arrival. Not doing so could result in a forced quarantine for up to 14 days.
加拿大卫生部长让·杜克洛斯(Jean-Yves Duclos)在一份声明中说,该国的高疫苗接种率和降低的住院率正在允许进行更改。
“Adjustments to Canada’s border measures are made possible by a number of factors, including Canada’s high vaccination rate, the increasing availability and use of rapid tests to detect infection, decreasing hospitalizations and growing domestic availability of treatments for COVID-19. As vaccination levels and healthcare system capacity improve, we will continue to consider further easing of measures at the borders—and when to adjust those measures—to keep the people in Canada safe.”
The move continues a string of good news in recent weeks for the international travel industry as countries continue to wind down measures at the border.The most recent one was New Zealand, which announced on Wednesday从4月12日开始,新西兰将允许澳大利亚的疫苗接种式旅行者在该国的学校假期中及时进入无隔离区。
几周后,5月1日,将允许包括加拿大和美国在内的不需要签证的国家接种疫苗的游客,然后进入。
Other countries to wind down border measures include theUnited Kingdom, which will end the last of its COVID travel rules this week, Ireland, which fully returned to normal earlier in May, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and more.