“The border is sort of the least of your worries.”Chagla also noted the federal government has contracted COVID-19 testing services to three private companies. Chagla said there are better ways to use the money and testing capacity, including boosting testing capacity for people who are homeless, for healthcare workers, and for teachers and for students in schools. Two weeks ago, amid a backlog of more than 100,000 tests, Ontario limited access to molecular COVID-19 tests to people showing symptoms who are deemed at high risk or who work in high-risk settings. Aiming to test everyone who flies to Canada would make sense only in a “perfect world” of unlimited testing capacity and resources, he added. “We’re at a time when testing resources need to be triaged appropriately,” said Bogoch.

Source: thestar January 16, 2022 20:00 UTC