Canada plans to extend its exemption from quarantine to all fully vaccinated foreign nationals arriving in Canada, including South Africans, from September 7 (the government website calls this a ‘tentative date’).

Meanwhile, travel to Canada is “near normal”, according to Canadian holidaymakers reporting on their return to Canada from South Africa.

The tourists spent three weeks in South Africa and said that the exemption from quarantine as fully vaccinated Canadians was working like a charm when they returned last week.

“It took only a couple of minutes on my return to Toronto to get processed. I had to show I was fully vaccinated and the negative result of a rapid PCR test we took as we checked in at Johannesburg airport,” said one.

“We flew on Delta Airlines tickets to South Africa on codeshare flights with KLM and returned with Air France, via Paris. Before boarding we had to show the airline the results of the PCR test, but all in all the additional protocols due to Covid for fully vaccinated passengers are almost painless,” he said.

For details: https://travel.gc.ca/travel-covid/travel-restrictions/covid-vaccinated-travellers-entering-canada#determine-fully