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Ontario to start mandatory traveller coronavirus testing at Toronto Pearson airport on Monday

By Staff The Canadian Press

Posted January 29, 2021 2:48 pm

Updated January 29, 2021 7:46 pm

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Click to play video: 'Coronavirus: Ontario to require mandatory testing at Toronto Pearson airport for arriving travellers' — WATCH ABOVE: Reacting to the Canadian federal government's new public health measures for international travellers, Ontario Premier Doug Ford said while he welcomes this change, he feels it doesn't start soon enough. As a result, Ontario is introducing a plan to combat virus variants and will require mandatory COVID-19 testing at Toronto Pearson International Airport for all passengers on arriving flights. – Jan 29, 2021

TORONTO — Ontario will make all international travellers take a COVID-19 test on arrival starting Monday.

A senior government source says the province will move forward with the traveller testing despite a similar federal program announced today that’s set to ramp up in the coming weeks.

The source says Ontario’s chief medical officer will use authority granted to him under public health legislation to impose the mandatory tests.

The testing order will come into effect Monday at Toronto’s Pearson International airport, and will also apply to the province’s land border crossings to the United States.

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Premier Doug Ford has repeatedly called on the federal government to bring in mandatory testing for travellers as variant strains of COVID-19 spread around the world.

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