Quarantine Hotels

• Canada’s designated COVID-19 quarantine facilities cost nearly $389M over 3 years: PHAC

  Canada set up 38 quarantine facilities in 14 cities across the country throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, between March 2020 and September 2022.

  Canada

  Feb 1, 2023
  
• Federal quarantine hotel in Toronto won’t be fully closed after 13 staff test positive for COVID-19

  Toronto Public Health says inspections on Tuesday found some areas for improvement like more restrictions in the lunch room, more signage and centralized screening.

  Health

  May 4, 2021
  
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• Travellers can avoid paying for Canada’s hotel quarantine

  Global News has learned travellers entering Canada by air can avoid paying more than $1,000 each for a mandatory quarantine because the federal government will pay the whole bill.

  Health

  Apr 12, 2021
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• Hotels taking advantage of Canada’s COVID-19 quarantine rules, some travellers allege

  "Why do I have to pay for three days when I'm negative? It doesn't make sense."

  Health

  Apr 2, 2021
• Confusion at the airport: Alberta oil worker forced into quarantine hotel, co-worker gets to go home

  An Alberta driller who works in the United States was forced to stay at a quarantine hotel last week while his colleague with the same paperwork went straight home.

  Canada

  Mar 2, 2021
• Drop in international air travel arrivals after feds impose new rules: data

  The drop in international arrivals in early February is about four times the decline seen between early January and early February in 2019 and 2020.

  Canada

  Mar 2, 2021
• Travellers booking COVID-19 quarantine hotels report long wait times, lack of options

  The hotel requirement went into effect on Monday, as the federal government cracks down on non-essential travel amid increasing concern about more infectious variants of COVID-19.

  Canada

  Feb 28, 2021
• Flying back to Canada? Here’s what you can expect at the new COVID-19 quarantine hotels

  The new rule is part of an effort to reduce non-essential travel and get ahead of the new virus variants — three of which have already been confirmed inside the country.

  Canada

  Feb 21, 2021
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• COVID-19: Calgary man says he was given no reason for quarantine in undisclosed hotel

  A Calgary man has a lot of questions after being taken to a secret quarantine location following a business trip to Florida.

  Health

  Feb 10, 2021