News - Travel Restrictions

The Manitoba RCMP continually assessed highway conditions overnight and continue to monitor this morning. Anticipated widespread highway closures across southern Manitoba were not required as originally anticipated.

As was announced on July 19, the Government of Canada will allow fully vaccinated foreign nationals meeting the conditions to enter Canada for discretionary (non-essential) purposes starting on September 7, 2021.

Fully immunized Manitobans will now be able to travel without having to self-isolate for two weeks upon return with a new, secure immunization card that will be available to people two weeks after they have received both doses of a COVID-19 vaccine.

The Manitoba government is aware of new travel restrictions into Ontario, starting Monday, April 19 at 12:01am. The Ontario government is introducing checkpoints at all of Ontario’s interprovincial borders limiting access at Ontario’s borders with Manitoba and Quebec.

The Manitoba government is amending public health orders to put formal restrictions on interprovincial travel to protect Manitobans from COVID-19 and to help prevent importation of possible variants from other jurisdictions.

Several cases of the new COVID-19 variant have now been identified in Canada and the federal government has posted a travel ban on all flights arriving from the United Kingdom until Jan. 6.

Manitoba Infrastructure reports the northbound lanes of the bridge over the Red River Floodway along PTH 59 north is restricted to one lane of traffic due to damage caused by an over-height vehicle on Oasis Road underneath.