Starting April 1, Canada will no longer require proof of a negative covid test result at the border for vaccinated travelers, the Public Health Agency of Canada announced in a March 17 press release.
The change is “made possible by a number of factors, including Canada’s high vaccination rate, the increasing availability and use of rapid tests to detect infection, decreasing hospitalizations and growing domestic availability of treatments for COVID-19,” said Jean-Yves Duclos, Canada’s Minister of Health, in the press release.
Travelers still will need to upload proof of vaccination and other information on the ArriveCAN app, and Canada still will randomly select travelers for testing upon arrival.
The decision to drop the pre-arrival testing requirement comes about a month after Canada began accepting results from lab-based rapid antigen tests. Previously it only permitted results from molecular tests.
Until April 1, travelers will need to provide proof of a negative result either from an antigen test taken no more than a day before arrival or a molecular test taken three or fewer days before arrival.
Unvaccinated Americans still won’t be allowed to cross the border.
Proof of a negative test is not required for entry into the United States via land or ferry.