Rising COVID Concerns Force Leaders to Indefinitely Delay Atlantic Travel Bubble
April 29, 2021 Jim Byers
The planned-for Atlantic Travel Bubble is being postponed, this time indefinitely.
Provincial premiers in Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland + Labrador last year installed a “travel bubble” that allowed residents of any of those four provinces to travel back and forth without needing to quarantine.
The Council of Atlantic Premiers had hoped to re-instate the practice on April 19. That was then pushed to May 3. But now it’s off the table indefinitely.
“Premiers agreed that recent outbreaks of COVID-19, accelerated by emerging variants of concern, have made it necessary to maintain restrictions on non-essential travel within the Atlantic region,” the council said in a media release.
“Premiers will revisit the re-opening of the Atlantic Travel Bubble when the threat of further outbreaks has been reduced, based on advice from the region’s Chief Medical Officers of Health.”
Officials have said they hope they can bring the bubble back for the critical summer tourism season.
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