{"id":240607,"date":"2021-08-12T06:10:11","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T06:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=240607"},"modified":"2021-08-13T07:17:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T07:17:02","slug":"2-travelers-fined-nearly-16000-each-for-entering-canada-from-u-s-using-fake-vaccination-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=240607","title":{"rendered":"2 Travelers Fined Nearly $16,000 Each for Entering Canada from U.S. Using Fake Vaccination Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Gabrielle Chung \u2013 uk.sports.yahoo.com Aug 3, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Two travelers entering Canada from the United States have been fined thousands of dollars after they were caught using fraudulent vaccination cards and COVID-19 test results to cross the border.<\/p>\n<p>The travelers arrived in Toronto on the week of July 18, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to &#8220;providing false information related to proof of vaccination credentials and pre-departure tests,&#8221; they failed to stay at government-authorized accommodations or get tested for COVID-19 upon their arrival, Canadian officials said in a news release on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The travelers were each fined $19,720 Canadian dollars \u2014 or about $16,000 in U.S. dollars \u2014 for their &#8220;non-compliance with entry requirements.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Though the travelers have not been identified by name, Health Canada spokesperson Maryse Durette <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/2-travelers-who-used-fake-vaccine-cards-enter-canada-u-n1275750\" data-ylk=\"slk:told NBC News\" data-rapid_p=\"7\" data-v9y=\"1\">told NBC News<\/a> that they are Canadian citizens.<\/p>\n<p>The incident marked the first case of travelers using fake vaccination documents to enter Canada, Durette said.<\/p>\n<p>On July 5, Canadian officials announced that fully vaccinated travelers with an exemption to enter the country can skip quarantine and post-arrival testing if they upload proof of vaccination and a negative COVID-19 test result to the ArriveCAN app prior to travel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.sports.yahoo.com\/news\/2-travelers-fined-nearly-16-033152359.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Believe it or not they got off lightly. If they had tried to enter the U.S. from Canada using fake vaccination cards they would have faced up to five years in jail<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":222263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240608,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240607\/revisions\/240608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/222263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}