"My father passed away ... [and] I'm coming back to all this expense," said a woman returning with her husband from Guyana. "It's ridiculous."

As new, more contagious variants of COVID-19 spread across Canada, experts wonder why the government waited to implement stricter travel rules.

The Public Health Agency of Canada is imposing new mandatory coronavirus reporting rules for international air travellers coming to Canada starting Nov. 21.

Residents of Point Roberts who've been isolated since the Canada-U.S. border was closed to non-essential travel in March are frustrated that newly eased restrictions don't apply to them.

The new rules apply to residents of Stewart, B.C., Hyder, AK., Campobello Island, N.B. and the Northwest Angle of Minnesota.

Patients in isolation might be placed in a negative-pressure room with extra precautions to make sure they don't spread infection.