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Random testing resumed on July 19, 2022 for fully vaccinated travellers arriving in Canada by air to the four major Canadian airports, Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal and Toronto. After a brief suspension of the program, testing locations for all air travellers, including fully or partially vaccinated and unvaccinated people, are now located outside of airports in an attempt to reduce delays. Travellers must have been vaccinated with a primary series of an accepted COVID-19 vaccine to be considered fully vaccinated. Boosters are not required at this point in time. Travellers who do not qualify as fully vaccinated, unless exempt, must continue to quarantine for 14 days and test on Day 1 and Day 8. Testing remains an important part of the government's surveillance program to track the importation of COVID-19 virus into Canada and identify new variants of concern. How does it work? Air travellers who are selected for mandatory testing will receive an email notification within 15 min...

As of April 1, 2022 fully vaccinated travellers will no longer need to provide a pre-entry COVID test.  Travellers arriving in Canada from any country, who qualify as fully vaccinated, will continue to be randomly selected for arrival testing. However, since February 28, 2022 travellers are no longer required to quarantine while awaiting their test result. Futhermore,  Transport Canada’s restriction where international passenger flights can arrive in Canada expired. This means that international flights carrying passengers are  permitted to land at all remaining Canadian  international   airports. Effective April 25, 2022,  all fully vaccinated travellers will no longer be required to provide a quarantine plan upon entry.  At the same time, u nvaccinated or partially vaccinated children aged 5-11 who are accompanied by a fully vaccinated parent will no longer be required to complete a pre-entry COVID-19 test for entry to Canada. Pre-entry tests will st...