Quarantine with someone 65+
Mar 11, 2021 | 7:01 pm
#1
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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?
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?
Mar 11, 2021 | 8:39 pm
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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.
Mar 11, 2021 | 8:59 pm
#4
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Apologies if its 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.
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.
Mar 11, 2021 | 9:00 pm
#5
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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.
Mar 12, 2021 | 5:39 am
#6
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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.
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.
Mar 12, 2021 | 7:11 am
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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?
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?
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!?".
Mar 12, 2021 | 7:56 am
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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?
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?
Mar 21, 2021 | 5:44 am
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Mar 21, 2021 | 8:49 am
#11
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I filled out ArriveCAN several days ago so cant recall which info it asked for. Im almost certain it was my family members home address where Ill be quarantining. I had a flag on the app that Im 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.