NEW - Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic Leblanc announces that anyone coming into to Canada will require a negative covid PCR test 3 days before arriving in Canada #cdnpoli

Public Safety Minister Bill Blair says that it will be up to the airline to make sure that people provide a negative test before they board the plane. There is no timeline for when these new covid testing rules are going to come into place #cdnpoli

Should note that this does NOT replace the 14 day quarantine period. You're still stuck in your house for 2 weeks if you travelled outside the country #cdnpoli https://twitter.com/Gray_Mackenzie/status/1344334722831446025?s=20

Dr. Njoo notes that all the UK variant cases currently found in Canada were caught while the person was in quarantine but notes that "other variants of concern will likely be found in Canada" #cdnpoli

The bad news on the UK variant, the early info shows that it's more transmissible, as per Dr. Njoo

The good news on the UK variant, there is no data to show it's more lethal, your body still produces an anti-body response against it and the vaccine will work against it #cdnpoli

Maj-Gen Fortin says that Canada has received 168K doses of Moderna so far.

We got 212K doses of Pfizer last week, with 12K this week, bringing the total Pfizer/Moderna December total to 424k doses #cdnpoli

Looking forward to next month, Maj-Gen Fortin lays out the delivery schedule #cdnpoli

Week of Jan 4th - 124k Pfizer doses
Week of Jan 11th - 170K Moderna doses
Rest of Jan - 208K Pfizer doses per week

Dominic Leblanc says the new rules around requiring a negative PCR covid test 72 hours before arriving in Canada, will come into effect "in the next few days" #cdnpoli

While talking about the new covid testing rules, Dominic Leblanc takes a swipe at Rod Phillips in french #cdnpoli

"If I'm on a beach in the Caribbean this week, and I have to scramble to find somewhere to get a test before I can return, we have to look into that..."

Dr Njoo shoots down down Rick Hillier's request to make Moderna a one shot vaccine. He says it's "pretty straight forward" that the approval of Moderna from HC has been based on a two dose regime, and that there isn't sufficient data from the company to make it one dose #cdnpoli

On the AstraZeneca vaccine, Health Minister Patty Hajdu says that Health Canada is still waiting on a "number of packets of data" from the company before they're able to give a final review of the vaccine #cdnpoli

Dominic Leblanc takes another shot at Rod Phillips in french #cdnpoli

"If I were on a beach right now in Florida or in the Caribbean, I would be trying to find a clinic to get a covid test before coming back to Canada"