{"id":114596,"date":"2021-02-22T09:58:36","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T01:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=114596"},"modified":"2021-02-22T09:58:38","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T01:58:38","slug":"covid-19-canada-us-extend-closure-of-shared-border-to-march-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=114596","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Canada, US extend closure of shared border to March 21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Canada-US-extend-closure-of-shared-border-to-March-21.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Canada-US-extend-closure-of-shared-border-to-March-21.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>OTTAWA, Feb 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Canada\u2019s border with the United States<br>will remain closed to all non-essential travelers until March 21, Public<br>Safety Minister Bill Blair announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNon-essential travel restrictions with the United States have been<br>extended until March 21st, 2021,\u201d he said in a Twitter message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe will continue to base our decisions on the best public health advice<br>available to keep Canadians safe from Covid-19.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The border was initially closed in March 2020 to slow the spread of the<br>coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The closure has been renewed monthly since then. Only trade in goods and<br>merchandise and essential travel are allowed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest extension comes with new daily cases greatly reduced from a<br>month ago in both countries but more contagious variants of the novel<br>coronavirus posing an added threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pandemic has claimed more than 21,000 lives in Canada and nearly<br>500,000 in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Effective Monday, air travelers to Canada will have to quarantine in<br>hotels at their own expense for up to three days under strict supervision<br>while awaiting the results of mandatory PCR testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If their test comes back negative, they\u2019ll be permitted to complete their<br>full 14-day quarantine at home. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA, Feb 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Canada\u2019s border with the United Stateswill remain closed to all non-essential travelers until March 21, PublicSafety Minister Bill Blair announced. \u201cNon-essential travel restrictions with the United States have beenextended until March 21st, 2021,\u201d he said in a Twitter message. \u201cWe will continue to base our decisions on the best public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":114597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114596"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/114597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}