The Federal Government is advising against any non-essential travel outside of the country due to the emergence of the COVID-19 Omicron variant worldwide.
Manitoba announced its sixth confirmed case of the highly transmissible variant today, and Canada has already imposed a quarantine on anyone traveling from specified countries where there are higher numbers of the variant.
The Canadian Minister of Health, Jean-Yves Duclos says now is not the time to travel, and travelers could get COVID-19 or get stranded abroad.
The Federal Government also announced that they will be sending shipments of booster doses and rapid tests to provinces and territories to help ramp up vaccination campaigns.
