Experts say that Canada’s decision to require a negative COVID-19 test for travellers from China will not help in preventing new variants or the spread of the virus.
Two faculty members at the University of Toronto's Temerty Faculty of Medicine dispute the basis for the policy. Assistant professor Kerry Bowman called the requirement "absolutely a political move, and not based on science at this point." Associate professor Dr. Isaac Bogoch says, “we know from the past that very focused and targeted travel measures such as this don't do much to prevent the spread of COVID, either by importing COVID to Canada, or by the threat of variants of concern in Canada.” Another expert added that similar measures three years ago may have been “enormously effective at limiting spread,” but may not “do very much now.”
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