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Coronavirus impacts Canadian border travel and immigration

The COVID-19 pandemic is continuing to have a major impact on travel to Canada, and processing of immigration applications in Canada. On April 14, 2020, Canada issued an Order in Council stating that persons allowed to enter Canada, including Canadian citizens, even if healthy, were required to self-quarantine for a period of 14 days."Essential" workers, cross- border commuters and several other groups were not required to quarantine. Beginning January 7, 2021 all air travelers to Canada must have had a negative PCR COVID test taken within 72 hours of the departure time of the flight, or a positive test taken between...