Canada to require people entering the country show proof of negative COVID-19 test

Justin Trudeau.
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Canada will soon require that all people entering the country show proof of a negative COVID-19 test taken within three days of their arrival.

Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc said this measure will go into effect sometime in the next few days. Already, travelers to Canada must self-quarantine for 14 days upon their arrival, and flights from the United Kingdom have been temporarily banned in an attempt to keep a new variant of COVID-19 from spreading across the country.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.