Quarantine Mandatory for All Travellers Returning to Canada: Trudeau

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks to the media about the COVID-19 pandemic during a news conference outside Rideau cottage in Ottawa, Canada, on March 20, 2020. Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press

OTTAWA — The federal government will start enforcing 14−day quarantines on travellers returning to Canada to try to limit the spread of COVID−19.

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says “mandatory isolation” is needed to flatten the curve of the growth of the novel coronavirus in Canada.