Canada-U.S. border to close as early as Friday as Canadians overseas try to get home
OTTAWA - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday that he expects the closure of the United States-Canada border to come into effect overnight on Friday and was working with domestic carriers to bring home citizens stranded overseas.
Canada has 772 cases of the respiratory illness caused by coronavirus to date, and nine deaths. Some 55,000 people have been tested across the country so far, Chief Medical Officer Theresa Tam said.Known cases of the illness have surpassed 10,000 in the United States. “These are difficult and extraordinary times in which Canadians are taking difficult and extraordinary measures,” Trudeau told reporters outside his house, where he is in self-isolation after his wife tested positive for coronavirus.
Ottawa has not received any requests for ventilators from provincial health authorities but has been acquiring some for its stockpile, Tam said.
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