US applicants have received ppr even though the borders are closed, Chinese Russian & Austrian offshore applicants have received ppr, kindly check myimmitracker.
Unemployment is an ongoing issue, they cannot stop immigration for that, once the dust settles down on this pandemic, it will be up and running for fsw draws as well.
Also, the outland applicants bring in a minimum of 13000 dollars to spend in the Canadian economy.
You can come back to this post at the latter date and I will have proved my point that those whose medicals are valid won't need to do a medical test, not even for covid 19