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ArriveCAN and Canadian travel requirements - CoverMe Blog
As of January 15, , partially or unvaccinated travellers will only be able to enter Canada if covered by an exception new permanent residents, agricultural and food processing workers, marine crew members, those entering on compassionate grounds, resettling refugees and some children under the age of Canadian citizens, permanent residents, and people with status under the Indian Act will be required to have a negative PCR test result test must be done in a third country before being allowed to enter Canada.
Canada allowed entry to foreign nationals who had the authorization to enter Canada such as Canadian work permit holders and international students with study visas. Those with written authorization from the IRCC could also travel to Canada if their reason for travelling to Canada was non-optional. As of January 15, only travellers who are fully vaccinated who have received approved vaccines are allowed to enter Canada, unless they are listed as exemptions. Public Health Agency of Canada announced that several pandemic restrictions will be extended at Canadian airports and land borders, including vaccine mandates, random COVID tests and the mandatory use of the ArriveCan app, until at least June While few Canadians may still be anxious about travelling, some are ready to take a vacation after more than two years in a pandemic.
As of April 1, fully vaccinated travellers no longer need to provide a negative pre-entry COVID test result to enter Canada by air, land or water. Passengers may still be subjected to mandatory, random PCR testing at the airport -- in part to monitor for new, emerging COVID variants -- though they will not be required to isolate while awaiting their results. As of April 25, children aged five to 11 who are travelling with a fully vaccinated parent or guardian will no longer be required to complete a COVID test prior to entering Canada, regardless of whether the child is unvaccinated.
All travellers coming to Canada, regardless of citizenship or vaccination status, still have to use the ArriveCAN app to submit their health information before arriving in Canada. Travellers must submit their information in ArriveCAN within 72 hours before arrival at a port of entry. Travellers who arrive without completing their ArriveCAN submission may have to test on arrival and on the eighth day of their day quarantine, regardless of their vaccination status.
Foreign nationals may be denied entry as well if they have not completed their ArriveCAN submission. While travellers still have to use the ArriveCAN app, the federal government has dropped its requirement for those entering the country to monitor for and report any COVID symptoms they experience.
Despite the lifting of pre-entry test requirements, the requirement to be fully vaccinated with a government-approved COVID vaccine in order to board federally-regulated air, rail, and marine transportation remains in effect. Pre-entry testing requirements have not changed for partially vaccinated or unvaccinated travellers who are currently allowed to travel to Canada. Unless otherwise exempt, all travellers age 12 or older who do not qualify as fully vaccinated — having received at least two doses of a COVID vaccine accepted for travel or a mix of two vaccines — must continue to provide proof of a negative pre-entry COVID test result.
Accepted pre-entry tests include a health professional-administered negative rapid antigen test taken no more than one day before arriving at a port of entry, or a negative molecular test taken no more than 72 hours before a scheduled flight or crossing at a land border.
Partially vaccinated or unvaccinated travellers may also provide a positive molecular test taken at least 10 days and no more than days before their scheduled flight departure time or their arrival at the land border to enter Canada.
Positive antigen test results are not accepted. The government recommends completing a COVID vaccine series, along with any additional recommended doses in Canada, at least 14 days before travelling internationally. For those who must travel, the government suggests delaying one's plans until they are fully vaccinated. Canadian adults and children aged five and older who are fully vaccinated are no longer expected to wear a mask in public spaces for 14 days following their arrival in Canada.
However, children aged five to 11 who are either unvaccinated or partially vaccinated must continue to wear masks in public settings, such as school, for 14 days after entering Canada.
All travellers are also still required to wear a mask while travelling on federally-regulated modes of transportation, such as a plane or train, regardless of whether they are vaccinated. Prior to travelling, the government recommends checking the COVID testing and vaccination requirements, as well as other entry requirements, at one's destination as they may be different from Canada's rules.
Travellers are also advised by the Canadian government to monitor the COVID situation at their destination in the days before travelling should the status of COVID infections and public health requirements there change. Cruise passengers aged five years or older are required to take an antigen or molecular COVID test in order to board a ship no more than two days before their scheduled departure, but will not need to be tested before getting off the ship.
All other requirements for cruises, including providing proof of vaccination before boarding, remain in place. The government continues to warn travellers that the virus can spread easily between people in close quarters, such as on cruise ships.
Your test kit service provider is based on where you entered the country. Contact your testing provider if you:. Log in or create a LifeLabs account to use your home test kit.
Log in or create a Switch Health account to use your home test kit. Log in or create a Dynacare account to use your home test kit. Fully vaccinated travellers arriving to Canada, who meet all the criteria, no longer need to take a Day-8 test.
Check if you qualify as fully vaccinated. Alaska : If you are driving between Alaska and continental United States, you won't receive a Day-8 test kit, as you don't need to submit one. Find out if your travel is exempt from Day-8 test requirements. All travellers will receive calls from a live agent or automated system and you may also be visited at your place of quarantine by a screening officer to verify your compliance.
You are still required to complete a test on Day-8 and remain in quarantine for the full 14 days. You must isolate yourself from others immediately for a period of 10 days beginning on the day you tested positive for COVID, which is the day you took the test.
A government representative will call you to provide additional details and instructions. You must take another test. Collect another specimen using your Day-8 kit with the instructions provided. Contact your test provider , and ask them to send you a replacement kit, to use on Day-8 of your quarantine. Niagara Falls Comic Con returns June 5, , pm. June 3, , pm. Westdale Secondary School was closed Friday following a shooting threat June 3, , pm.
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