01-29-2021, 07:29 PM
(01-29-2021, 03:11 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(01-29-2021, 12:05 PM)ac3r Wrote: Also, new travel restrictions to be announced, including mandatory quarantine in a specific quarantine site at a travelers expense - something that we should have been doing from the start like other nations that are now living pretty normally...
It seems that there will be another PCR test on arrival, and then the mandatory stay at an approved hotel is just until the test results arrive. After that, the rest of the quarantine is at home, but with "increased surveillance" (follow-up phone calls?) and then another PCR test at day 10. This process is not immediate but will be put in place in the next few weeks or so.
What I heard on the news was as follows:
Negative test -> quarantine at home with actual follow-up
Positive test -> quarantine in government facility
I have to say that my reaction was basically “shouldn’t we have started that last March? Or even February?”.
If we had closed the border completely until we got the above set up, the virus probably wouldn’t even have entered Canada and we could have skipped this whole lockdown. And I’m really not interested in hearing any rights-based whining about this sort of border control.