Premier Doug Ford says more still has to be done to keep deadly COVID-19 variants from getting into Canada via the borders.
He says you can’t have one set of rules for people flying into Canada and another for people at the land borders.
During today’s press conference, Ford said people still aren’t quarantining at hotels after flying into Canada and are still crossing the land borders by foot.
In the last two weeks alone, Ford says 150,000 people have come in through the land borders, while 36,000 people are entering Canada per month through the airports.
The Province wants the Federal government to work with Ontario to enact stricture measures such as a mandatory three-day quarantine in hotel for people crossing into Canada at land borders.
“The system is broken – all I’m asking the Federal government (is) to stop the variants from coming in,” said Ford. “And these are deadly variants – 90 percent of all cases are related right back to our variants. The most deadly variant that we’ve seen from one case – the UK variant – was Roberta Place in Barrie. One person that was quarantining was living with another person – went in there and there was 200 cases and unfortunately – tragically – close to 100 people lost their lives, because of the variant(s).”
Ford says he spoke with a taxi driver the other day and learned that “they had 400 cars down at the border picking people up.”
To watch today’s full press conference, see below.
https://twitter.com/fordnation/status/1385291363839848451