Canadian Politics: Is that a Light at the End of the Tunnel?

[Old Zog]

44 minutes ago, Fragile Bird said:

The US [has] 10% [...] of the country vaccinated [...]

What's your source for this number? According to NPR, the US has 1.9% of its population fully vaccinated. 8.2% have received at least one dose.

[Fragile Bird]

12 minutes ago, Old Zog said:

What's your source for this number? According to NPR, the US has 1.9% of its population fully vaccinated. 8.2% have received at least one dose.

Right now the numbers being quoted are either "doses administered" or "at least one dose" There aren't that many people anywhere who have received two doses. And many countries are administering only one dose for the moment, to try to slow down the spread. The UK, for example, has spread out the time between the two doses. Quebec has administered no second doses at all, the western provinces very few, Ontario the most. But we have pretty well run out of vaccine now.

Using "doses administered" the US has administered doses to 10.2% of their populaton, 35.2M doses, and the UK has administered doses to 16.19% of their population, or 10.99M people.

When doses are at a premium, it's doses that count.

Canada has administered 1,031,872 doses, 90.3% of what we have received. We have received 1.14 M doses. The US has received (ie delivered to states) 57.5 M doses. If we had as much vaccine as the US has, we would have 9.02 M doses.  (doses received x 8.75)

The topic is very controversial, and the media in certain countries are presenting information in a manner that makes them look good. "Oh look, we only have 1.9% of our population vaccinated, we aren't vaccine nationalists, Canada, now there's a vaccine nationalist! They ordered 5x as much vaccine as they need, what pigs they are!" Without mentioning things like the fact the US is not allowing any vaccine they make to leave the country for at least four months, 300 M doses. (100M Pfizer, 200M Moderna) The UK is also keeping the first 100 M doses they make for the UK. (AZ) That US number might be higher, I don't know and the US government hasn't revealled if the J & J vaccine order, 100 M doses, is also the first 100 M manufactured before any can be exported. Of course, this is possible because they manufacture vaccine in their countries, Canada does not.

The US itself always points to Israel, oh look, they have 60% of their population vaccinated! Poor little old us! Of course, Israel only has 9 M people, and the media don't break out first and second doses.

As for Canada, the vaccine nationalist/pig, if you want to compare two doses received, the US has 2.1% of it's population having received two doses as of this morning according to the NYT, Canada has 0.39% (148k people as of this morning).

NYT vaccine tracker:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-vaccinations-tracker.html

CTV vaccine tracker:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/coronavirus-vaccine-tracker-how-many-people-in-canada-have-received-shots-1.5247509

[Zorral]

Wherever those doses are being administered in the USA, they aren't being administered here in NY or NYC.

The NYT has kept a running graphic, for the world, for the nation, and in some sections, even county of the state.

This is what it says about the US numbers as of this morning:

8.4% at least one shot, out of the USA population total; 2.2% have received two shots out of the USA population total;

Doses distributed 57,489,675; shots given 35,203,710.

Total USA population of last year 332,915,073.

As of February 3rd for New Yorkers across the board who are supposedly eligible for the shot(s):

https://www.pix11.com/news/coronavirus/latest-coronavirus-updates-in-new-york-wednesday-february-3-2021

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Vaccines administered: NY Health care distribution sites have administered 92% of first doses received from federal government.
First doses: 1,432,195
Second doses: 331,579
About 7.1 million New Yorkers are eligible to receive the vaccine.

Total population of NY state as of 2019: 19.45 million.

 

[Fragile Bird]

28 minutes ago, Zorral said:

Wherever those doses are being administered in the USA, they aren't being administered here in NY or NYC.

The NYT has kept a running graphic, for the world, for the nation, and in some sections, even county of the state.

This is what it says about the US numbers as of this morning:

8.4 at least one shot, out of the USA population total; 2.2 have received two shots out of the USA population total; Doses distributed 57,489,675; shots given 35,203,710.  Total USA population of last year 332,915,073.

As of February 3rd for New Yorkers across the board who are supposedly eligible for the shot(s):

https://www.pix11.com/news/coronavirus/latest-coronavirus-updates-in-new-york-wednesday-february-3-2021

Total population of NY state as of 2019: 19.45 million.

 

See, you just show how it's all in the eye of the beholder.  

That's 1,432,195 + 331,579 for a total of 1,763,774, correct? So 7.4% of the NYS population has received at least one dose, but in terms ot Total Doses Administered more than 9% of the population has received shots. 

There are only 4 countries in the world with as high a percentage of people vaccinated (total administered) as New York state, one being the US, the other three being the UK, Israel and the UAE. Oh, wait a second, those huge countries Bahrain and The Seychelles have snuck in there since the last time I looked. NYS has half the population of Canada and has administered a whopping 70% more vaccine.

All of Canada's total is 1,031,872, Total doses administered.

A number of people have told me to stop bitching about things I can't control, but I can play with numbers on my laptop while stuck in my house. What else is there to do, but trust the government when it says a lot more vaccine will arrive in the second quarter.  

[Zorral]

However we play with the numbers though, things look now as if the virus will continue to circulate through the population no matter what, with lulls, perhaps, more some place than others, but like the Plague, it will be always be with us, and what that will mean.

[Fragile Bird]

Update

Jan        29Fr   30Sa   31Su   01Mo  02Tu  03We  04Th  05Fr                            

BC          514    408     473     277     429     414    465     471                                           

AB          543    383     461     355     268     259    421     396        

SK           328     258    238     147     223    194    250     269         

MB          157     166    119      89       83     126    110     110       

ON        1837    2063  1848  1969     745  1172   1563   1670  

PQ         1295   1367   1223   890    1053  1053   1093   1101       

Atl-4          21      15       26      11       26      17       19         7             

North          0         1       10        0         2       0         2         0                                       

Total       4695   4661   4398  3738  2828  3235   3923   4025

As I said earlier in the week, we would have a stupid low number on Tuesday, due to Toronto migrating numbers to the Ontario system. There are still issues, so the Ontario numbers have been down and up. We didn't test many earlier in the week, so we had a 5.2% positivity, but as usual, test numbers got higher through the week and today we had the lowest positivity in I don't know how long - 2.5% - on 62,710 tests, and an R number of .9, which was actually a tad higher.

Meanwhile, the numbers in Nova Scotia have been so low, single digits, that many restrictions are being lifted. On the other side of the country, BC was supposed to ease some restrictions but the decision was made to continue them until daily cases come down a bit more. Alberta may also be easing restrictions.

I had heard someone say on a CBC newscast that we had received more Pfizer vaccine, but I can't confirm that. The CTV vaccine tracker shows no increases. I did see a story that Biden said he will not change the executive order signed by Trump in December declaring no vaccine produced by Pfizer or Moderna ca be exported until Americans receive all their doses. I assumed this meant the 100M Pfizer purchased and the 200M Moderna vaccine purchased, but I didn't realize that the US also has options for 500M more doses of the Moderna vaccine, so don't count on any coming from the US any time soon.

[Fragile Bird]

Update

Jan        01Mo  02Tu  03We  04Th  05Fr   06Sa   07Su  08Mo                            

BC          277     429     414    465     471    428    465    343                                           

AB          355     268     259    421     396    348    351    269        

SK           147     223    194    250     269    264    194    171         

MB           89       83     126    110     110     82      80       53       

ON        1969     745   1172  1563  1670  1388  1489  1265  

PQ           890   1053   1053  1093  1101  1204  1081    853       

Atl-4          11       26      17      19        7      15       9       13                  

North          0         2        0         2       0       10       0        0                              g.        

Total       3738   2828  3235  3923   4025  3732  3669  2968

The outbreak in the Edmundstun LTC home has been declared over, so that reduces cases in New Brunswick. But now Newfoundland has had an outbreak, with 11 new cases, the biggest number since the spring. Quebec had their lowest number since early in November. Hopefully the numbers in Ontario have now been cleared up with the regard of the transfer of the Toronto data to the Ontario system. Rules are easing region by region, with Toronto and most of the GTA not on the list yet. Everyone west of Ontario seems to be getting in better and better shape.

Meanwhile the situation with regard to vaccine is still crap. As of today, we've received 125,665 doses since Feb. 1, which is about what Americans do over 2 hours. And they think we're whiners. 104,800 came in the last two days. Apparently we might not get any Moderna vaccine next week.

The federal government says they've been reassured by Pfizer that we'll have 4 M doses by the end of March, and they are warning the provinces they'll need to be prepared for a flood of vaccine, so be ready. Let's hope it's not another empty promise. That would make 5.25 M of the 6 M we were supposed to have, the rest would be from Moderna. We hope. Apparently Pfizer has been suggesting they might be able to pick up the pace now that they've expanded the Belgium plant. I mentioned in the new Covid thread that I heard on CNBC this morning that Pfizer said up until now, it's been taking 110 days to produce vaccine, and they are aiming to reduce that time period to 60 days. That explains a lot.

[Fragile Bird]

We are apparently going to be receiving 400k doses of the Pfizer vaccine next week. We missed getting 200k this week and 200k last week so that catches up those two weeks, but we are still behind. Let's see if we get 400k the week after as well.

I just looked for a link to add to this post to confirm what I heard on the radio, but all I see are stories saying we will receive 335k next week, and "almost" 400k the week after. Moderna is supposed to send us 250k every 3 weeks, but we only got 180k in our last shipment and our next shipment the week of Feb. 22 will also be less than 250k. We are supposed to get 4M from Pfizer by the end of March, the shipments will have to be bigger each week to meet that goal. If we get 400k a week we will receive 2.73 M, far short of 4M. Let's hope they get bigger, as they have told the government.

[Fragile Bird]

Update

Jan        03We  04Th  05Fr   06Sa   07Su  08Mo  09Tu 10We

BC          414    465     471    428    465    343      435    469

AB          259    421     396    348    351    269      195    339        

SK           194    250     269    264    194    171       80    180             

MB          126    110     110     82      80       53       75     57       

ON        1172   1563  1670   1388  1489  1265  1022  1072 

PQ         1053   1093  1101   1204  1081    853    826    989        

Atl-4          17      19        7        15       9      13      47      67                  

North           0         2       0       10        0       0        0        2                                      

Total        3235  3923   4025  3732  3669  2968  2680  3178

While numbers have been trending steadily downward, we still see places where an outbreak can rapidly escalate. A meat packing plant in Alberta has reported more than 200 cases this week. Newfoundland, doing so wonderfully well, has reported 85 cases in two days plus more than 20 "presumptive" cases, presumptive because they were detected by rapid tests and are not being counted until confirmed by a PCR test. I cannot find a story explaining where these cases are, but 44 of them are in people under the age of 20 and schools are being closed in and around St. John's. The NL government has re-posted a federal post listing 11 oil sands worksites in Alberta that have Covid outbreaks, warning returning workers that they have to quarantine for 14 days.

On a happier note, the number in Ontario today is 945, the lowest since Nov. 2, except for Feb. 2 when Toronto's numbers weren't included and, apparently, 199 cases were deducted as duplicates.

No news on the vaccine front. Once again we had a weird 15,600 increase in the number delivered yesterday, without an explanation. I have no idea if we received more or if someone previously made an error in addition.

[Fragile Bird]

Holy hell, Newfoundland is reporting 100 new cases today. That's wild.

[Aemon Stark]

It's a bit crazy and the response has been an immediate lockdown in St John's and area. And "immediate" as in IMMEDIATE not in a few days Doug Ford-style. 

[JoannaL]

On 2/10/2021 at 3:56 AM, Fragile Bird said:

We are apparently going to be receiving 400k doses of the Pfizer vaccine next week. We missed getting 200k this week and 200k last week so that catches up those two weeks, but we are still behind. Let's see if we get 400k the week after as well.

 

That's still fall-out from the Belgium Pfizer plant reconstruction, isnt it? All of Europe also had less deliveries in the the last two weeks. This Belgium plant seems to be the only source of the Pfizer /Biontech vaccine for the whole world (apart from US) at the moment. BUT the BioNtech Marburg plant started producing yesterday (first vaccines scheduled to be ready beginning of April) , so then there are at least two which should help. Though only two plants for the whole world (apart from US), it makes you wonder of all the things that can go wrong...

"Funny" info about the J & J vaccine. Apparently it will be produced in Europe but shipped to the US to fill  into glass vials. Now the EU is wondering if they will see any of that back, after it got to US soil.

[Fragile Bird]

1 hour ago, JoannaL said:

That's still fall-out from the Belgium Pfizer plant reconstruction, isnt it? All of Europe also had less deliveries in the the last two weeks. This Belgium plant seems to be the only source of the Pfizer /Biontech vaccine for the whole world (apart from US) at the moment. BUT the BioNtech Marburg plant started producing yesterday (first vaccines scheduled to be ready beginning of April) , so then there are at least two which should help. Though only two plants for the whole world (apart from US), it makes you wonder of all the things that can go wrong...

"Funny" info about the J & J vaccine. Apparently it will be produced in Europe but shipped to the US to fill  into glass vials. Now the EU is wondering if they will see any of that back, after it got to US soil.

I just read that while everyone in Europe got fewer doses, Pfizer cut back Canada’s shipment by much more than any European country, so we got a double hit. But even so, without Europe we’d be dead ducks. Japan just got their first shipment yesterday, 177k  doses. I wonder if they got the shipment we were supposed to receive. 

Eta: no vaccine in the US is supposed to leave the US until all Americans who want the vaccine have received their jabs. That’s Trump’s executive order which Biden confirmed he would not rescind. I need to look to see if it says “manufactured” in the US, it might, in which case we all might be in luck.

[Fragile Bird]

12 hours ago, Aemon Stark said:

It's a bit crazy and the response has been an immediate lockdown in St John's and area. And "immediate" as in IMMEDIATE not in a few days Doug Ford-style. 

I see from the news it's B117, the UK variant.

Keep us updated...

[Fragile Bird]

Update

Jan        05Fr   06Sa   07Su  08Mo  09Tu 10We  11Th  12Fr

BC          471    428    465    343      435    469     449    445

AB          396    348    351    269      195    339     351    314        

SK           269    264    194    171       80    180     114    195             

MB          110     82      80       53       75     57        90      81      

ON        1670   1388  1489  1265  1022  1072     945   1076 

PQ         1101   1204  1081    853    826    989   1121    984        

Atl-4           7        15       9      13      47      67     104      55                  

North          0       10        0       0        0        2         7        1                                      

Total        4025  3732  3669  2968  2680  3178  3181  3151

Newfoundland had another 50 cases today, and the public health officer has put the province at the highest alert level, 5. It seems, as I said above, that it's the UK variant that is spreading across the Avalon peninsula. This is what hit that LTC home in Ontario so quickly last month. And, heaven help us, BC has detected a case of B1.525 from Nigeria. I didn't watch any of the press conferences today, but while doing some work with the radio on I swear I heard the premier of Manitoba congratulating the province for 0 cases today. They must have been running a report from last summer for some reason. I was disappointed to see 81 new cases in the province after that.

Speaking of press conferences, apparently the PM announced that Pfizer is accelerating shipments of vaccine in the second quarter, and re-confirmed we will get 4 M Pfizer vaccine by the end of March. 10.8 M are to be delivered in the second quarter and the balance of our 40 M (plus an option for another 32 M) in the third. I count that as 40 - 15.6, or 24.4 M between July and September. I think we've received at least 800k from Pfizer so far. We have also purchased another 4 M doses from Moderna, for a total of 24 M. (plus an option for another 20 M) That would be enough to vaccinate all the adults in Canada, but Moderna seems to be going through production issues now. I assume if Moderna doesn't deliver in time we will pick up more Pfizer, unless we also get Novavax or J&J or AZ vaccine. I'm not holding my breath.

In terms of myself, I was kinda dreaming I might get vaccinated in April, but that looks hopeless now. Ontario has 14.57 M people, 4.6 M seniors. I'm 66, so I'm at the bottom of the list. Ontario is 38.4% of Canada's population, so we'll get 1.536 M doses from Pfizer by the end of March. We're supposed to get 180k Moderna every three weeks, so 540k by the end of March, except they've been short shipping us. Let's say we get 440k, or 168k for Ontario, for a total of 1,704,000. We get 10.8 M Pfizer in the second quarter, so Ontario will get 4.14 M, for a total of 5.844 M. Add 4 shipments of Moderna, 180 x 4, for 720k. 275k for Ontario, for a grand total of 6.159 M. That means 3.079 M seniors, out of 4.6 M. Except there are also all the health care workers and police and first responders as well. Geez, here I was thinking in all likelihood I might get vaccinated in June, but actually I see end of July or start of August now. Fuck. Six more months in isolation. Double fuck. 

The government says everyone who wants a vaccine will be vaccinated by the end of September, so obviously there are more vaccine shipments scheduled already that we know nothing about. Let's hope so.

[Aemon Stark]

Lockdown: 

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Newfoundland and Labrador is under lockdown, and Saturday's provincial election will continue with only mail-in voting, officials said Friday, as the province battles the B117 variant of the coronavirus.

In an emergency briefing Friday evening — the second time officials addressed the province in one day — Dr. Janice Fitzgerald, the chief medical officer of health, said tests had confirmed the widespread presence of B117  for the first time.

The "variant of concern" is responsible for this week's mass outbreak in the capital.

Confirmation of the variant's arrival prompted lockdown measures across the province Friday and has suspended in-person voting in the election, delaying the ballot count by at least two weeks. 

B117 was first discovered in the United Kingdom. It's believed to be more contagious than the original coronavirus strain.

"We know that if not controlled, it becomes a predominant strain within weeks of first appearance," Fitzgerald said. "This is concerning and serious. But we have the ability to overcome it."

Effective immediately, the entire province is at Alert Level 5, with all but essential businesses closed, Fitzgerald announced.

The decision expands previous measures implemented in the St. John's area this week, returning Newfoundland and Labrador to the same rules it followed for weeks last spring.

 

[Altherion]

12 hours ago, Fragile Bird said:

The government says everyone who wants a vaccine will be vaccinated by the end of September, so obviously there are more vaccine shipments scheduled already that we know nothing about. Let's hope so.

The Canadian vaccine situation is an interesting case study in the dangers of outsourcing production of critical goods:

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is sticking to his promise: Every Canadian who wants a vaccine will get one by September.

To make good on that promise, Canada says it has purchased nearly 400 million doses from seven vaccine manufacturers. To date only the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines have been authorized for use in Canada.

While Canada says it has spent nearly a billion dollars to buy those vaccines, the country has not been at the front of the line in receiving those vaccines.

Both Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna have significantly slowed deliveries to Canada after a combination of manufacturing delays and demands from Europe, where Canada procures its doses, to restrict vaccine exports subject to European approval.

Canada did not attempt to procure any vaccine doses from the US after the Trump administration indicated it would not allow any vaccines to be exported.

So in theory, Canada has bought way more vaccines than it needs, but since none of them will be produced on Canadian soil, in practice, Canadians will get very little until Europe and the US are satiated. September sounds optimistic to me, but it could happen because the population is relatively small so the vaccine surplus does not need to be very large for all Canadians to get it.

[Fragile Bird]

8 hours ago, Altherion said:

The Canadian vaccine situation is an interesting case study in the dangers of outsourcing production of critical goods:

So in theory, Canada has bought way more vaccines than it needs, but since none of them will be produced on Canadian soil, in practice, Canadians will get very little until Europe and the US are satiated. September sounds optimistic to me, but it could happen because the population is relatively small so the vaccine surplus does not need to be very large for all Canadians to get it.

Lol, that's a hilarious article. I'm not surprised that it came from CNN. Two weeks ago Fareed Zakaria opened his GPS show by attacking Canada as the worst kind of vaccine hoarder, "vaccine nationalists". I'm sure CNN caught all kinds of shit from angry Canadians over that show. The following week, at the very end of his show he tossed in a line at the very end of the show about, btw, Canada is giving all excess vaccine to countries who need it. 

Since the US has actually banned the export of vaccine from the US until all Americans who want vaccine get vaccinated, it's funny to even mention the idea that "Canada didn't attempt to procure any vaccine doses from the US after the Trump administration indicated it would not allow vaccines to be exported". Trump signed an EO to that effect in December. Good grief, who would order vaccine from the US after mid-December? That would have been pretty useless. And I doubt CNN has any confidential details from Canadian contracts between Canada and Pfizer and Moderna. Last spring, when we were putting in orders, Trump already had locked up the first 100 M Pfizer doses and the first 200 M Moderna doses being produced in the US. I don't think CNN knows the terms and conditions of those contracts and whether they would be sole sourced from Europe. In any event, the US has locked up even more hundreds of millions of doses this past week. Nobody in the world is getting vaccine from the US.

As far as I'm concerned, the article is another "blame Canada" of the type I see coming out of both the US and the UK, to distract from the fact that the two countries have retained all vaccine being produced in their countries for their own use. Damn, look at the danger of oustsourcing goods! Stupid Canada, a country where the vaccine producers have refused to produce vaccine even when there are plants in the country. We do have vaccine plants here, but no producer would agree to make it here. I understand Pfizer and Moderna doing so, their processes are so complicated they vastly underestimated manufacturing time. Pfizer said all summer they'd have 100 M doses for the US by the end of December, only admitting in September that they would only produce 50 M and that would be globally, not in the US. And they couldn't even do that in the end.

I've said before in the Covid threads, countries who do what the US and the UK have done in a global pandemic like we have now are absolutely immoral. And of course, Brits and Americans are thoroughly angry that anyone would dare say that! I laughed out loud reading the comment about how Canada has vaccinated less than 3% of it's population, "a fraction of the number vaccinated in the UK and the US". Indeed.

[Fragile Bird]

I wanted to see the actual wording of Trump's executive order forbidding the export of US vaccine, here's the relevant wording from EO 13962:

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Section 1. Purpose.

Through unprecedented collaboration across the United States Government, industry, and international partners, the United States expects to soon have safe and effective COVID–19 vaccines available for the American people. To ensure the health and safety of our citizens, to strengthen our economy, and to enhance the security of our Nation, we must ensure that Americans have priority access to COVID–19 vaccines developed in the United States or procured by the United States Government (‘‘United States Government COVID–19 Vaccines’’).

Sec. 2. Policy.

It is the policy of the United States to ensure Americans have priority access to free, safe, and effective COVID–19 vaccines. After ensuring the ability to meet the vaccination needs of the American people, it is in the interest of the United States to facilitate international access to United States Government COVID–19 Vaccines.

Sec. 3. American Access to COVID–19 Vaccines.

(a) The Secretary of Health and Human Services, through Operation Warp Speed and with the support of the Secretary of Defense, shall ensure safe and effective COVID–19 vaccines are available to the American people, coordinating with public and private entities—including State, territorial, and tribal governments, where appropriate—to enable the timely distribution of such vaccines.

(b) The Secretary of Health and Human Services, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense and the heads of other executive departments and agencies (agencies), as appropriate, shall ensure that Americans have priority access to United States Government COVID–19 Vaccines, and shall ensure that the most vulnerable United States populations have first access to such vaccines.

(c) The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall ensure that a sufficient supply of COVID–19 vaccine doses is available for all Americans who choose to be vaccinated in order to safeguard America from COVID–19

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13962

The important wording is "developed in the US or procured by the US Government". The vaccines that fall under that category are from Pfizer, Moderna, J&J and Novavax. Two other companies got money but their vaccines haven't worked out.

Medicago did not get US Warp Speed funding, and their vaccine was developed in Canada. I assume this means that their vaccine, being made in a facility in North Carolina (their Quebec plant won't open until next year, or even 2023, depending on how fast certification gets done) won't be blocked from shipment out of the US. They also have a small manufacturing facility in Quebec that will make 10% of their production this year. They have been roughly three or four months behind Pfizer and Moderna, their Phase 2/3 started Nov.10. I assume that means we will see results in April. Their Phase 1 showed 100% of the trial subjects develop good antibodies to Covid-19.

I read that the J&J vaccine being produced in their plant in Holland is being shipped to the US for bottling. I wonder if that means that it cannot be exported out of the US until the US has received all their 100 M doses from J&J. Novavax is manufacturing in the US, mainly in Maryland, but also in multiple plants in Europe, Korea, Japan, and a huge amount will be made in India. I don't think Canada has announced any shipment details from Novavax yet (it hasn't even been approved) nor from J&J. J&J is currently having manufacturing issues.

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Snow Birds gonna be pissed.

https://travel.gc.ca/travel-covid

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/news/2021/02/government-of-canada-expands-restrictions-to-international-travel-by-land-and-air.html

I assume the week stagger is to allow said Snow Birds to arrange getting back now?

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For travellers arriving to Canada by land, as of February 15, 2021, all travellers, with some exceptions, will be required to provide proof of a negative COVID-19 molecular test result taken in the United States within 72 hours of pre-arrival, or a positive test taken 14 to 90 days prior to arrival. In addition, as of February 22, 2021, travellers entering Canada at the land border will be required to take a COVID-19 molecular test on arrival as well as toward the end of their 14-day quarantine.

All travellers arriving to Canada by air, as of February 22, 2021with some exceptions, will be required to take a COVID-19 molecular test when they arrive in Canada before exiting the airport, and another toward the end of their 14-day quarantine period. With limited exceptions, air travellers, will also be required to reserve, prior to departure to Canada, a 3-night stay in a government-authorized hotel. Travellers will be able to book their government-authorized stay starting February 18, 2021. These new measures are in addition to existing mandatory pre-boarding and health requirements for air travellers.

Finally, at the same time on February 22, 2021, all travellers, whether arriving by land or air will be required to submit their travel and contact information, including a suitable quarantine plan, electronically via ArriveCAN before crossing the border or boarding a flight.