Canada has extended its ban on American tourists at least one more month, until September 21 Public Safety Minister Bill Blair announced Friday.
An estimated 80% of Canadians want their southern neighbors to be kept out until 2021 at the earliest as the coronavirus pandemic continues to escalate in the United States. Fear of American travelers bringing the coronavirus into Canada has led some citizens to begin reporting cars with foreign license plates to the police.
The US-Canada border has been closed since March 31, when the two countries banned all nonessential travel between in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus and extended several times. The border closure was just one part of Canada's somewhat successful national effort to shut down the pandemic, while the number of both confirmed cases and deaths has continued to spiral in the United States. "We're taking this step to keep people in both our countries safe - because your health and safety is always our top priority," Canadian Prime Minister Justin Treadeu tweeted Friday.
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