American tourists are further banned from entering Canada until September and 'citizen detectives' are on the lookout

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• Canada has yet again extended its ban on American tourists, this time until September 21.
• 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 or vandalizing them. 
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Canada has extended its ban on American tourists at least one more month, Canadain Public Safety Minister Bill Blair announced Friday.

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.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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• Poll finds that 80% of Canadians want the US-Canada border to stay closed for the rest of the year, as the coronavirus pandemic rages on in the US
• New Zealand is racing to contain its first coronavirus outbreak in over 3 months as 13 new cases are recorded in one city
• The US reported the highest single-day COVID-19 death toll since mid-May

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