CBC Report of COVID Quarantine Raises Concerns
February 9, 2021 ctn_admin
CBC is reporting a concerning recount in a Calgary COVID isolation hotel, with similarities like Canadian Travel News’ account nearly weeks ago of Niki Mathis.
During his 14-day mandatory stay in Calgary’s COVID-19 isolation hotel, Angelo Vanegas says he couldn’t get food for up to 15 hours at a time overnight, was penned up in a small room and had to “beg” to get medical treatment for an infection. He says he felt ignored, disrespected and mistreated.
Another traveller, Mitch Beaulieu, said it seemed to him like a sci-fi thriller. Police and security officers escorted him from Calgary’s airport to a van with blacked-out windows and took him to a hotel with hallways lined with plastic. There, he was greeted by people wearing hazmat suits, gloves and face masks.
Reacting to the story and a question outside Rideau Cottage today, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said people who are being quarantined in hotels are not prisoners.
“It’s not a punishment,” he said. “They are not in detention” but instead in medically-based isolation.
Public health officials, he said, will follow-up to make sure everyone will be treated with dignity.
Trudeau said isolation could be as long as three days, but that tests sometimes come back in as little as 24 hours.
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