The Federal Government held a press conference today to advise all Canadians to suspend all non-essential international travel.
If plans have been made they say now is not the time to follow through with it.
The announcement was made by Federal Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc.
Federal Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos added that the official order of avoiding international travel will be in place for 4 weeks.
Arrival testing is being expanded to test as many travelers as possible as quickly as possible.
The move comes after Modelling from the Science Table has indicated that there could be upwards of 10,000 cases per day in Ontario alone by New Year’s Eve.
Ontario has seen it’s 7 day rolling average jump 50 percent over the last 7 days to 1514 cases. Cases involving the Omicron variant are doubling ever 3 days.
