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Canada Urged to Relax Entry Rules for Fully Vaccinated Travelers

  • Advisory group also says Trudeau should drop quarantine hotels
  • Government says it will consider recommendations, be prudent
A worker walks past a mandatory Covid-19 testing area at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport in Toronto in February.Photographer: Cole Burston/Bloomberg
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A Canadian advisory body said Justin Trudeau’s government should relax its stringent border rules for vaccinated travelers and drop a requirement that international air passengers quarantine in a hotel when they arrive.

In a report released Thursday, the Covid-19 Testing and Screening Expert Advisory Panel said it’s time for Canada to adopt different entry rules for travelers who’ve been vaccinated. People who have received two shots should be exempt from quarantine and pre-departure virus tests, said the panel, which was created in November by the government.