CDC urges Americans to 'reconsider travel' to Canada

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention accrued question advisories to Canada connected Monday, advising Americans to "reconsider" question plans into the state amid a spike successful COVID-19.

The State Department said Monday that connected the proposal of the CDC, it had re-categorized question advisories from Level 2 — "exercise accrued caution" — to Level 3 — "reconsider travel" — owed to "a precocious level of COVID-19 successful the country."

Canada has seen an summation successful cases arsenic the much contagious delta variant spreads passim the country. According to Johns Hopkins, lawsuit rates person accrued from a debased of astir 2,500 a time astatine the extremity of July to a existent full of astir 21,000.

By comparison, the U.S. presently has a seven-day average of astir 42,000 cases a day, a fig that appears to beryllium falling.

Canada reports that it has fully vaccinated 65% of its full population, portion the U.S. has fully vaccinated 52% of its population.

The determination comes little than 3 weeks aft the U.S. lowered question advisories to Level 2. That came a time aft Canada opened its borderline with the U.S. for non-essential travel for immoderate vaccinated Americans. It marked the archetypal clip since the commencement of the pandemic that Canada had allowed non-essential question from Americans.

The U.S. has kept its restrictions connected non-essential travel done its borders successful spot since the commencement of the pandemic. Those restrictions volition stay successful spot until astatine slightest Sept. 21.