Friday 30 October 2020

Cuba-Atlantic bubble 'an interesting idea,' Russell says

 

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/cuba-atlantic-bubble-1.5782514


Cuba-Atlantic bubble 'an interesting idea,' Russell says

Travel agency says seats are selling fast on its two flights, but is it an option for New Brunswickers?

 

CBC News · Posted: Oct 29, 2020 7:11 PM AT


Dr. Jennifer Russell, the chief medical officer of health, addresses reporters during a news conference in Fredericton Thursday afternoon. (Government of New Brunswick)

Sorry, sun-seekers, that dream trip to Cuba might have to stay a dream for now, although Dr. Jennifer Russell, New Brunswick's chief medical officer of health, wasn't entirely opposed Thursday to the idea of a travel bubble.

"It's an interesting idea," she said when asked about an Atlantic-Cuba travel bubble at a news conference in Fredericton.

Talk of a new bubble arose this week after a Halifax travel agency said it was offering two week-long trips to Cuba reserved exclusively for residents of Atlantic Canada looking for a warm winter vacation safe from COVID-19.

Absolute Travel Specialists in Halifax has said it would charter one Air Canada flight to Cuba in February and another in March, and travellers would have to quarantine on their return to Canada. Half the seats on the first flight have been sold, the agency said.

Russell said a travel bubble is only in the "conversation stage" and would have to be agreed on by all four Atlantic provinces.

"The risks as of right now would have to be decided upon as a collective, the four provinces together would have to agree on that … I haven't really had any conversations myself personally," she said. 


Dr. Robert Strang, Nova Scotia's chief medical officer of health, during Wednesday's COVID-19 briefing. Strang was cool to the idea of travel to Cuba and other non-essential trips while the pandemic rages around the world. (Dave Laughlin/CBC)

But her counterpart in Nova Scotia, Dr. Robert Strang, is not keen.

On Wednesday, Strang poured cold water on the possibility of a bubble and encouraged Nova Scotians to stay home.

"The Public Health Agency of Canada continues to advise against non-essential international travel," Strang told reporters, adding the "safest" option for now is for Nova Scotians to continue to "support our local hotels, restaurants and other businesses." 

At the briefing Thursday, Russell was also asked about the possibility of setting up temperature scanners at airports in Fredericton, Moncton and Saint John, as larger airports in Toronto and Calgary are doing.

She said she hasn't heard any discussion about bringing the scanners here and suggested it isn't high on her radar at this time.

"In terms of the technology and what that information can tell us about travellers … we know that the symptoms of fever in patients with COVID can be fleeting," she said. "It can last for a short while and go away and then come back." 

With files from The Canadian Press

 

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57 Comments
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David Amos
Surprise Surprise Surprise
 
 
 
 
David Amos
Reply to @David Amos: Methinks this proved to a rather silly article for folks to get in a spit and chew about Clearly I sensed that it would be out of the gate N'esy Pas?
 
 
Randy McNally
Reply to @David Amos: I thought it was a stupid proposal but somehow I am not surprised that the good doctor actually entertained such an idea.
 
 
Anne Bérubé
Reply to @Randy McNally: Those lucky enough to get a seat on those flights will be returning a loss LESS depressed than you folks commenting, obviously!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
Dave Ladd
I don't understand the controversy. Can't anyone in NB or NS fly to Cuba (or Florida or California) right now?
 
 
Errol Willis
Reply to @Dave Ladd: Yes, but they have to quarantine for 14 days when they return. This would remove that requirement, making travel south much more attractive this winter.
 
 
SarahRose Werner
Reply to @Errol Willis: These aren't essential trips, they're just for fun. As far as I'm concerned, people should either quarantine for 14 days when they return or just not go in the first place.
 
 
Buddy Best
Reply to @Errol Willis: Absolute Travel Specialists in Halifax has said it would charter one Air Canada flight to Cuba in February and another in March, and travellers would have to quarantine on their return to Canada.
 
 
David Amos
Reply to @Errol Willis:
"Absolute Travel Specialists in Halifax has said it would charter one Air Canada flight to Cuba in February and another in March, and travellers would have to quarantine on their return to Canada. Half the seats on the first flight have been sold, the agency said."
 
 
David Amos
Reply to @Buddy Best: Methinks we tripped over each other posting the same thing at the same point in time N'esy Pas?
 
 
Errol Willis
Reply to @Buddy Best: That's what I said...
 
 
David Amos
Reply to @Errol Willis: You said
"This would remove that requirement, making travel south much more attractive this winter."
 
 
Errol Willis
Reply to @David Amos: The idea, as I understand it, is that the advantage would be the removal of the self quarantine requirement upon return. Otherwise, as David Ladd points out, you can travel to Cuba tomorrow for a vacation.
 
 
David Webb NB
Reply to @Errol Willis: You understand incorrectly. Until the feds and Atlantic provinces make such an exemption, which they won't, one has to self isolate upon entry. The health experts have also repeatedly said to avoid unnecessary travel.
 
 
Rick MacMillan
Reply to @David Webb NB: Better check on this - I think if you go to Cuba (or Florida) tomorrow you would be subject to THEIR rules when you get THERE, if you can even go THERE. You would be subject to OUR rules when you get back HERE.
 
 
Bliss Burgoyne 
Reply to @Rick MacMillan: let them go, just dont let them come back, we all been not to travel
 
 
David Webb NB
Reply to @Rick MacMillan: You should note the "upon return" in Errol's statement, to which I was responding. Why do you feel the need to YELL?
 
 
David Amos
Reply to @Rick MacMillan: BINGO
 
 
Anne Bérubé 
Reply to @Dave Ladd: You can fly anywhere in the world, always has been!!!












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