The border has been closed to recreational travel and tourism since mid-March.
Canada first banned all foreigners from entering the country on March 16 but initially exempted U.S. citizens."We will be denying entry to Canada to people who are not Canadian citizens or permanent residents," Trudeau said at the time. Just a few days later, the U.S. and Canada agreed to close their mutual border.
As the U.S. has become the global epicenter of the pandemic, with nearly 650,000 confirmed cases as of Thursday afternoon, Canada has managed until now to maintain a relatively low number of infections. Currently, the nation has just over 30,000 confirmed cases and 1,229 deaths. About a third of the Canadians who have contracted the coronavirus have already recovered.
Meanwhile, Trump and other U.S. leaders have begun discussing how and when the country can begin safely reopening parts of the economy. But public health officials and economic expertsthat this will depend on the prevalence of testing, as well as the ability to track and isolate individuals who may be infected.
"The president will announce a plan in the works to drastically increase the capacity for state and local health departments to do core public health work like testing people, doing contact tracing," an unidentified top government official told."We want to beef up state capacity to be able to perform core functions, so that if and when we start to open the country back up, we don't have a resurgence of cases to require the country to shut back down.
On Thursday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, whose state has been the hardest hit by the outbreak in the U.S., extended his stay-at-home order until May 15.
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