{"id":62666,"date":"2020-08-14T08:32:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/canada-us-border-restrictions-extended\/"},"modified":"2020-08-14T15:48:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T23:48:39","slug":"canada-us-border-restrictions-extended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/canada-us-border-restrictions-extended\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada-US border restrictions extended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By ROB GILLIES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Associated Press<\/em><\/p>\n<p>TORONTO &mdash; The Canada-U.S. border will remain closed to non-essential travel for at least another month, Canada&rsquo;s public safety minister said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The statement by Public Safety Minister Bill Blair came a day after Mexico announced a similar measure for its border with the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The land border restrictions aimed at controlling the coronavirus pandemic were first announced in March and have been renewed monthly.<\/p>\n<p>Many Canadians fear a reopening. Canada has flattened the epidemic curve while the U.S. has more confirmed cases and deaths from COVID-19 than any other country.<\/p>\n<p>Essential cross-border workers like health care professionals, airline crews and truck drivers are still permitted to cross. Much of Canada&rsquo;s food supply comes from or via the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Americans who are returning to America and Canadians who are returning to Canada are also exempted from the border closure.<\/p>\n<p>Canada sends 75% of its exports to the U.S. and about 18% of American exports go to Canada. The U.S. Canada border is world&rsquo;s longest between two nations.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8226; This is an Associated Press report. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They will be in place at least through September. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":62675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-62666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62666"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=62666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}