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Help Ukrainians survive the war: LifeFunder
(LifeSiteNews) — Thousands of Ukrainians fleeing to Canada from their war-torn home nation are being subjected to mandatory testing for COVID-19 and must agree to a two-week isolated stay in quarantine before being granted access to the country.
An estimated 1,000,000 refugees have fled Ukraine in the week since Russia invaded, with at least 4,000 of those having made their way across the Atlantic to Canada’s shores in the hopes of finding asylum.
Despite the humanitarian crisis, refugees will face many of the same COVID-related restrictions imposed on international travelers arriving at the Canadian border, according to a report in Canada’s Western Standard.
Currently, foreign individuals arriving in Canada must have received a full regimen of inoculation against the novel coronavirus before being granted entry to the country, the government’s COVID travel guidelines state.
Canada’s Office of the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship confirmed that while most restrictions regarding entry will apply to those fleeing the Russian forces, “Canada has waived the vaccination requirement for eligible Ukrainian nationals who are escaping the conflict to come
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