Non-Atlantic bubble visitors will now be required to present a form at the border.
That’s following a new case of COVID-19 from a person traveling, through our province, from the US to PEI. He’s now being quarantined here.
Premier Stephen McNeil says the form, which will become available Tuesday, will need to be filled out with a plan for non-Atlantic bubble visitors to isolate.
“They must provide the address where they will be self isolating and a phone number where they can be reached 24/7,” he says. ‘If they are in self isolation, they should be able to take a call.”
McNeil says the measure is required to continue to limit the spread of the virus.
He says they will take the form seriously.
“Anyone from outside the Atlantic bubble must fill it out and present it at our border with a phone number where they can be reached and that will be follow-up called every day for 14 days,” he says. “And if we can’t locate them after three tries police will be called in to do an in-person check to make sure that that person is self isolating where they said they would be.”
McNeil says they can’t stop citizens, or relatives of people living here, from coming into the country, but those people must follow public heath rules.
