COVID-19 test within 72 hours of their departure.“It has absolutely ruined this vacation,” he told Global News on Wednesday. “You can’t leave us stranded down here.” Few will be exempted from new COVID-19 testing requirements for travellers, government says Millikin said where he is located in the U.S., it takes up to five days to get a COVID-19 test result back.“Even the CVS or Walgreens, which is in Canadian terms like Shoppers Drug Mart, these are the big national chains that are doing these PCR COVID tests, these guys say, ‘Look, its four to five days typically here,'” he said.Canada said it is bringing the measures into place in a bid to quell new cases of COVID-19, helping to prevent those carrying the virus from stepping foot on.