Air Travellers Will Soon Have to Test Negative for COVID-19 Before Arrival in Canada

Air Travellers Will Soon Have to Test Negative for COVID-19 Before Arrival in Canada
A man makes his way through Pearson International Airport during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto on Dec. 14, 2020. The Canadian Press/Nathan Denette
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OTTAWA—The federal government says it plans to require air travellers to test negative for COVID-19 before landing in Canada in response to concerns that people vacationing abroad could bring the novel coronavirus home with them.

Cabinet ministers met Wednesday morning following criticism from the premiers of Canada’s two largest provinces that federal efforts at the border were too loose and allowing new cases and strains of the virus to enter the country.