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The U.S.’s choice to extend restrictions yet again on border crossings reveals that heightened concerns over the Delta variation are being taken very seriously by this White Home.
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The United States on Friday extended the closure of its land borders with Canada and Mexico to non-essential travel such as tourist through September 21 regardless of Ottawa’s choice to open its border to vaccinated Americans.
The current 30-day extension by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), followed Canada said in July it would begin allowing in fully immunized U.S. visitors beginning August 9 for non-essential travel after the Covid-19 pandemic prompted a lengthy restriction that numerous businesses have called debilitating.
“In coordination with public health and medical specialists, DHS continues working carefully with its partners across the United States and globally to determine how to securely and sustainably resume normal travel,” DHS said on Twitter.
The United States has actually continued to extend the amazing restrictions on Canada and Mexico on a month-to-month basis given that March 2020, when they were enforced to address the spread of Covid-19. Reuters reported today the extension was anticipated.
The most recent restrictions extend the prohibitions beyond completion of the busy U.S. summer tourism season. Airline company authorities state it will be at least weeks and potentially months prior to any U.S. travel constraints are lifted, mentioning the increasing number of Covid-19 cases.
The U.S. land border limitations do not disallow U.S. people and legal permanent homeowners from going back to the United States.
Separate from the Canada and Mexico land border restrictions, the United States bars most non-U.S. people who within the last 2 week have actually remained in the UK, the 26 Schengen nations in Europe without border controls, Ireland, China, India, South Africa, Iran and Brazil.
The White House validated on August 5 it may need visitors from abroad to be immunized as part of its plans to ultimately resume global travel but it had yet to choose and would not immediately raise constraints.
The White Home in June launched interagency working groups with the European Union, Britain, Canada and Mexico to look at how eventually to lift travel and border limitations.
(Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Gareth Jones and Timothy Heritage)
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