{"id":60895,"date":"2021-04-15T19:18:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T01:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/?p=60895"},"modified":"2021-04-15T19:18:28","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T01:18:28","slug":"mandatory-hotel-quarantine-rules-cause-financial-difficulties-new-immigrant-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/2021\/04\/15\/mandatory-hotel-quarantine-rules-cause-financial-difficulties-new-immigrant-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandatory hotel quarantine rules cause financial difficulties, new immigrant says"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New Canadian Immigrant:<\/strong> Ivy Wang poses for a portrait in Calgary on Tuesday, Feb.23,2021. Wang believes travellers should take responsibility to quarantine themselves for 14 days and prepare to pay the cost up to $2000. (Photo by Sugege Du\/The Press)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A<\/span>ccording to the <\/span>air traveller requirements of the government of Canada<\/a>, all\u00a0travellers entering Canada by air are required to take three days mandatory hotel quarantine starting on Feb. 22, 2021. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Travellers will be responsible for the cost of quarantine around $2,000.\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Treena Lo, a new Canadian immigrant currently in Taiwan said the quarantine rules will cause financial problems to her.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“It’s very unfair; especially for newcomers,” said Lo. “I received a government document that requires me to arrive in Canada by March, which means I must spend $2,000 for the hotel quarantine.”\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI do understand the government is actually doing something to control the COVID-19 but isn\u2019t too late to start the mandatory hotel quarantine?\u201d said Lo. \u201cThe COVID-19 pandemic is almost over.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Lo said that the government should take responsibility to cover the fee for people who have essential reasons to travel because many people have been facing serious financial difficulties under the pandemic.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI lost my job in Canada since the COVID-19 pandemic started. Then, I returned to Taiwan because I could find a job and work there. I got my PR application approved during this period.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

At the end of the three days quarantine period at hotel,\u00a0travellers\u00a0who test positive will be sent to a government arranged location for the rest of their quarantine and treatment. Travellers who test negative will be required to take a 14\u00a0days\u00a0quarantine at their own places.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI do support it,\u201d said Ivy Wang, a Calgary citizen. \u201cI think most of the COVID-19 cases in Canada are from the outside of Canada. Like some people travelling from America, they might carry the COVID-19 to the airplane.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThree days is not too bad, like someone who has COVID-19 might takes 15 days to be noticed.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Wang explained that even $2,000 might be too much for most people, but people who decide to travel during this special time must prepare for it.\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPeople might be angry about this rule, but they should know the more important thing comparing to everything else is to control the number of the cases,\u201d she said.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Canada’s health minister, Patty Hajdu, said the hotel prices include the cost of rooms, food, clean up, prevention and control of the spread of the virus, security and transportation.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe hotels are doing the billing directly and different hotels will have different rates,\u201d Health Minister Patty Hajdu said<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>in a virtual conference on February 12<\/span>. \u201cThe hotels are setting the price based on their own deliberations on their own expenses.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Canadian immigrant says the mandatory hotel quarantine rule will cause financial difficulties to some essential\u00a0travellers.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [ READ MORE ]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":666,"featured_media":60896,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_ef_editorial_meta_text_assignment-slug":"S3. Hotel quarantine ","footnotes":""},"categories":[1560],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-60895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pandemic"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/666"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60895"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61687,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60895\/revisions\/61687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}