Quarantine with someone 65+
 

Have a trip home coming up in less than two weeks. Doing the hotel quarantine (YYZ) first and then plan to quarantine with family members nearby for the remainder of the two weeks.

It's a low-risk situation (will have my own bed + bath + away from family), other than the fact that family is in their 70s. I'm unclear on whether I need to present a letter outlining my quarantine situation and also a letter from my 70+ family explicitly consenting to letting me quarantine with them? Or do I just tell the border officials what the plan is, and give them the phone number for my family?

My understanding is you pick one place to quarantine for the full 2 weeks. No moving around unless you have an emergency medical need.

From the info I've seen, it is the third part that is most important. If own bed means own bedroom, that would be ideal, just may need (require?) to provide info on how you will get your food from what I understand / as I read requirements.

Apologies if it’s unclear. My question is actually:

Do I need a signed letter from my 65+ family member consenting to my quarantining with them? Or will the officer just call them?

Do I need to put my quarantine plan in writing? Or just tell it to the customs officer on arrival.

If you fly in you need to quarantine at a specific hotel for up to 3 days. Then you go to your place of quarantine for the remainder of your 14 day quarantine.

They will question you to make sure you will be away from the older folk for the whole quarantine. Masked when in shared spaces, and not hanging out with them.

From a friends, very similar, experience, she found the border agents to be very unimpressed with her plan to share the air with her 65 year old mother, even with separate living spaces. But they did not prevent her.

I am in the middle of this same situation now. I can confirm that it was no problem. I brought a very official "consent letter" signed by my parents. I also wrote, signed by me, a "Quarantine Plan" - because you are required to have one.

I can PM you my Quarantine plan. I presented that to the CBSA agent and she probably felt I had an idea of what I was doing and then it was really no problem at all. The only question was "So you really have separate living space!?".

I'm 68 and I quarantined with my 68-year-old wife. Like you, I had a separate bed and bathroom, and an arrangement that my meals would be brought to be so that I didn't have to share the kitchen or other living areas. All I had to do was declare in my quarantine plan that I would be in the same house as a vulnerable person. At YYZ, this flag got me referred to the PHAC people who phoned my wife to confirm the arrangement. They were happy with what they heard, and i was on my way through baggage claim to the Covid test within a few minutes.

Arrived today and was not asked any questions about my quarantine plan other than “do you have somewhere to stay?” I said yes. That was all.

By air or land? Where? What address did you put in the ArriveCan app ahead of time? Home address? Hotel?

By air. Pearson airport.

I filled out ArriveCAN several days ago so can’t recall which info it asked for. I’m almost certain it was my family member’s home address where I’ll be quarantining. I had a flag on the app that I’m quarantining with a vulnerable person, as I disclosed that family is 65+.

Customs asked me where I live, how long I was staying in Canada, wanted to see the negative covid test and my 3-day hotel reservation and then just asked if I had somewhere to quarantine after the hotel portion was over. I said “yes.” Then they asked if I had any goods to declare. That was it.