The federal government is enforcing unprecedented measures to stop the spread of COVID-19. It has deployed the Quarantine Act, imposing mandatory self-isolation for any traveller returning to Canada. “If you’ve just returned from abroad you have to go home and stay home for 14 days,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said at a press conference on Thursday.
Thousands of people across Canada are being required to self-isolate at home. In the Okanagan, snowbirds have now landed back home. [ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ] “We were in Tucson, Arizona.
We came back on the 19th,” said a senior couple in West Kelowna. “We’ve been going on walks in the neighbourhood,” admitted the couple.