Buffalo Limousine Taxi, which operates cabs at Buffalo Airport in the United States, has seen its business plummet in the wake of the COVID-19 virus pneumonia outbreak, but has been getting a lot of business from “snowbirds” returning to Canada from the United States recently.
According to the Canadian government’s epidemic prevention regulations, airline passengers entering Canada from foreign countries must be kept in quarantine at a hotel designated by the health agency for at least three days pending the results of a COVID-19 virus test, and those who violate the regulations are fined $2,000. However, passengers entering Canada through the land border are exempt from this requirement and are only required to provide proof of testing for the New Coronavirus and be quarantined in their own homes for 14 days.
One result of this double-standard quarantine is that Canadians who spend the winter each year on the sunny shores of the United States, such as Florida in the south, and are jokingly referred to as snowbirds, have chosen to fly to the U.S.-Canada border city of Buffalo when they return to Canada in the spring, and then take an airport cab across the Niagara Falls Bridge border customs into Canada.
The sudden arrival of Canadian “snowbirds” at the Buffalo airport since late February has caused a 50 percent jump in business for Buffalo Limousine Taxi.
Buffalo Limousine Taxi charged $120 to take a couple to the Canadian side of Niagara Falls and $3,000 to downtown Toronto.
American Taxi’s cars were able to travel freely between the U.S. and Canadian sides of the border during the COVID-19 virus pneumonia outbreak because their service fell under the category of essential and necessary services.
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