CANADA TO ACCEPT SOUTH AFRICA COVID-19 TESTS, DROP CONTENTIOUS 3rd COUNTRY RULE

By Chandrayee Roy Choudhary, Canada: Canada will start recognizing molecular CoVid-19 tests conducted at an accredited lab in South Africa for Canadians returning home. It will be dropping a heavily criticised travel restriction which had been introduced,to prevent spreading of the Omicron Variant.
The Capital Ottawa faced a lot of pressure from the Doctor's , stranded passengers and WHO to reverse the requirements that travellers from 20 south African countries get molecular PCR tests in a third country before returning to Canada.
Canada has also dropped the need to obtain pre- departure negative CoVid19 PCR tests from a third country according to a travel advisory issued on Saturday.