With Manitoba health officials seeing more cases of the illness linked to non-essential travel, experts say more needs to be done to discourage it or risk prolonging the pandemic. However, last week Manitoba's deputy chief public health officer Dr. Jazz Atwal said public health officials are seeing many COVID-19 cases linked to non-essential travel. Premier Brian Pallister has repeatedly insisted that the province has some of the toughest travel restrictions in the country. (Simon Fraser University)She says countries that have put travel restrictions in place quickly and coupled with testing have been the most successful at reducing the importation of the virus into their jurisdictions. If more infectious variants continue to be imported through travel, it will undermine Canada's immunization progress, and prolong the pandemic, she said.

Source: CBC News April 25, 2021 10:52 UTC