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Overseas Canadians doubling up on COVID-19 vaccines despite health unknowns
Canada’s quarantine rules put pressure on people to get extra vaccines
Salma Nurmohamed · for CBC News · Posted: Jul 08, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: 11 hours ago
While most Canadians are celebrating after their second COVID-19 vaccine doses, many expatriate Canadians living and working overseas are opting for third and fourth jabs.
They say they've been left with little choice but to re-vaccinate if they want to return to Canada in future and avoid Canada's 14-day hotel and quarantine provisions.
"I don't want to hotel quarantine again," said Monique Horvath, a 49-year-old Canadian teacher from Nanaimo, B.C., who has lived and worked in Moscow for the last 14 years.
She and her husband Brendan each got two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine in the spring — but they were the Russian Sputnik V vaccine, the only shot available to them, which is not approved for use in Canada. That means they would still have to quarantine if coming home.
"If there's an emergency and we need to come back to Canada … that's a big thing in my mind when you're overseas and away from family," Horvath said of their decision to undergo another two doses of vaccines each...
Overseas Canadians doubling up on COVID-19 vaccines despite health unknowns
Canada’s quarantine rules put pressure on people to get extra vaccines
Salma Nurmohamed · for CBC News · Posted: Jul 08, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: 11 hours ago
While most Canadians are celebrating after their second COVID-19 vaccine doses, many expatriate Canadians living and working overseas are opting for third and fourth jabs.
They say they've been left with little choice but to re-vaccinate if they want to return to Canada in future and avoid Canada's 14-day hotel and quarantine provisions.
"I don't want to hotel quarantine again," said Monique Horvath, a 49-year-old Canadian teacher from Nanaimo, B.C., who has lived and worked in Moscow for the last 14 years.
She and her husband Brendan each got two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine in the spring — but they were the Russian Sputnik V vaccine, the only shot available to them, which is not approved for use in Canada. That means they would still have to quarantine if coming home.
"If there's an emergency and we need to come back to Canada … that's a big thing in my mind when you're overseas and away from family," Horvath said of their decision to undergo another two doses of vaccines each...
