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Happy New Year! And if you arrive in Canada from China, Hong Kong and Macau from January 5 onwards, you will have to produce a negative Covid-19 test within 48 hours of your flight.
Canada is now following other countries such as the United States, Japan, Italy, India and Malaysia in trying to slow down the possible surge in Covid-19 cases coming into their respective countries.
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The Public Health Agency of Canada is concerned there could be other variants swirling around on the Chinese mainland that the rest of the world is unaware of and hope that testing will try to keep out as many other variants as possible; that said most people outside of China have either been infected with Covid-19 and recovered, or are sufficiently vaccinated to protect themselves.
While Canada's measure is only for 30 days and then will be reassessed to continue or not, epidemiologists like University of Hong Kong's Ben Cowling do not find this a good way in stopping the virus from entering other countries.
Testing inbound travellers, with the exception of those at a few tourist destinations, "does not have much impact on the domestic spread of infections because travellers only [make up] a small fraction of a population at any given time," Cowling said in an email, adding there was no epidemiological rationale for travel restrictions at this stage of the pandemic.
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Everyone is hoping 2023 will be much better and despite inflation, climate change and Covid-19 still lingering. No one wants to waste another moment after almost three years were gone.
Wishing everyone good health, happiness for the coming year!
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