Ms. Brigitte Diogo at the Public Safety and National Security Committee

On March 10th, 2021. See this statement in context.

March 10th, 2021 / 7:40 p.m.

Vice President, Health Security Infrastructure Branch, Public Health Agency of Canada

There are different ways when we talk about hotel quarantining. Australia or the U.K. use the hotels for the entire quarantine period. In Canada, we prefer people quarantining at home for the 14 days being the best situation.

However the variants and how to prevent the potential spread of those variants led us to examine the quarantine hotel for a short period of time with the introduction of testing on arrival.

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