TORONTO – The Canadian government said Wednesday that passengers must have a negative COVID-19 test taken within three days before they arrive in the country.
Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc said the measure will be implemented in the next few days.
Canada already requires those entering the country to self-isolate for 14 days, and it has already banned all flights from the United Kingdom because of the new variant of COVID-19 spreading there.
The decision came a day after the premier of Canada's largest province said he had ordered his finance minister to end a Caribbean vacation he took at a time the government is urging people to avoid nonessential travel because of the pandemic.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Wednesday it is “unacceptable” that Finance Minister Rod Phillips went to the French island of St. Barts for the holidays.
Britain first to OK AstraZeneca shot
Britain became the first country to authorize AstraZeneca's inexpensive, easy-to-handle COVID-19 vaccine Wednesday, gaining another weapon against the virus amid a resurgence so severe that the government extended lockdowns to three-quarters of England's population.
The country also changed course by deciding to dispense the first dose of its vaccines to as many people as possible right away, to give them at least some protection. Until now, authorities have been holding large amounts of vaccine in reserve, to make sure those who receive the first dose get the required second one on time.
The vaccine developed by the drugmaker and Oxford University could hold great appeal in less developed parts of the world because of its low cost and the fact that it can be kept in refrigerators.
Vaccines sent to 19 federal prisons
The U.S. Bureau of Prisons has started vaccinating staff members and some inmates at the Indiana prison complex where the Justice Department carries out federal executions, as officials work to contain a coronavirus outbreak at the facility.
Doses of the coronavirus vaccine had been delivered to 19 prisons, including the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, by Wednesday, a Bureau of Prisons spokesman told The Associated Press. They include some prisons that have been hit the hardest during the pandemic.
Nearly 7,100 federal inmates and more than 1,600 Bureau of Prisons staff members across the country had active, positive test results for COVID-19 on Wednesday, including 406 inmates at the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute.
Outbreak strikes Alaska prison
The Alaska Department of Corrections said almost every inmate in the state's biggest prison has had the coronavirus.
Sarah Gallagher, a spokesperson for the state department, estimated on Tuesday that 1,115 of the Goose Creek Correctional Center's 1,236 inmates had tested positive for the coronavirus since the outbreak at the prison began in November.
Greece officials lose shot priority
Greece's center-right government says senior state officials will no longer be given priority for the COVID-19 vaccination after posts on social media by Cabinet ministers receiving the shot triggered a backlash from health care unions and opposition parties.
Aristotelia Peloni, a deputy government spokeswoman, said Wednesday that a plan to vaccinate 126 officials was being cut short. It had been expected that a small number of senior officials would receive the vaccine publicly as part of a plan to persuade everyone that it was safe.
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