The Canadian Government announced that they're bringing back a requirement for everyone entering the country to have a pre-arrival negative molecular test result for COVID-19, even if travellers are returning after being away for less than 72 hours.
Canada is also removing their ban on all travellers who have recently passed through 10 African countries which the federal government introduced late last month in response to the emergence of the Omicron variant first identified in South Africa.
Canada's chief public health officer Doctor Theresa Tam says over the past seven days, Canada has seen an average of five-thousand new COVID-19 cases daily.
That's 45 percent higher than the previous seven-day period.
