The government said on Tuesday that Canada will remove all COVID 19 restrictions for inbound travellers from Oct 1, as well as testing, quarantine, and isolation requirements. The decision was based on Canada's vaccination rate, availability of new vaccines and treatments, as well as scientific modelling that shows the country has passed the peak of the latest wave of coronaviruses.
The sanitary measures at the border have been lifted thanks to Canadians who rolled up their sleeves to get vaccinated, but we have reached the point where we can safely lift the sanitary measures, according to Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos.
More than 90 per cent of Canadians over 12 have taken the primary series of a COVID 19 vaccine, and earlier this month Canada authorized Moderna Inc's bivalent COVID 19 shots for adults, in the country's first Omicron-adapted vaccine.