{"id":75900,"date":"2020-03-16T14:38:30","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T18:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/immigrationca.staging.wpengine.com\/coronavirus-canada-bans-entry-for-all-non-citizens-and-permanent-residents-with-few-exceptions"},"modified":"2020-03-16T14:38:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T18:38:30","slug":"coronavirus-canada-bans-entry-for-all-non-citizens-and-permanent-residents-with-few-exceptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/coronavirus-canada-bans-entry-for-all-non-citizens-and-permanent-residents-with-few-exceptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Canada Bans Entry For All Non-Citizens and Permanent Residents, With Few Exceptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>2020-03-16 &#8211; Canada will step up its coronavirus response by taking the extraordinary step of barring entry to everyone who is not a citizen or permanent resident, with a few exceptions, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>U.S. citizens, immediate family members of citizens, aircrew and diplomats are the only groups exempt from the new measure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Anyone displaying symptoms of COVID-19 will not be allowed to board flights to Canada, with air operators required to complete a basic health check on every passenger.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00ab\u00a0I know that these measures are far-reaching,\u201d Trudeau said. \u201cThey are exceptional circumstances calling for exceptional measures.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span><b>Read More<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/coronavirus-canada-immigration-authority-introduces-series-of-special-measures\">Coronavirus: Canada Immigration Authority Introduces Series of Special Measures<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span>Further, international flights are now only allowed to land at airports in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Trudeau said a government support program would be set up \u201cto help asymptomatic Canadians to return home.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Financial assistance is to be provided to help Canadian travellers with the costs of returning home or to cover their needs while they wait, the Prime Minister said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>To help stop the coronavirus spread, the Canada Border Services Agency is to boost staff, education and screening at airports and other entry points.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Travellers from any international location will be asked to self-isolate for 14 days, after being asked if they have coronavirus symptoms: fever, coughing or difficulty breathing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Canada currently has around 375 presumed and confirmed cases of COVID-19<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020-03-16 &#8211; Canada will step up its coronavirus response by taking the extraordinary step of barring entry to everyone who is not a citizen or permanent resident, with a few exceptions, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Monday. U.S. citizens, immediate family members of citizens, aircrew and diplomats are the only groups exempt from the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":75895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64214,4859],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c27-canada-temporary-entry-visa-fr","category-lactualite-canadienne","category-64214","category-4859","description-off"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}