announcement last week of a string of new measures to crack down on non-essential travel amid the coronavirus pandemic, many are now delaying their return to the country.
Like a ‘rock concert’: Coronavirus vaccines a hot ticket for Canadian snowbirds “I am seeing interest through either calls or actual sales of individuals who are asking to extend their current travel insurance because they have no intention of coming back,” Martin Firestone, a travel insurance broker in Toronto who caters to snowbird clients, told Global News.Their main concern?
A mandatory three-day quarantine at a government-designated hotel that could cost upwards of $2,000, while they wait for the result of their polymerase chain reaction test (PCR) upon landing.This.