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canada eases border rules; ont. reports 325 new covid cases

border city mayors aren't expecting a 'mad rush' of tourists.

by the canadian press

aug 9 2021
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by: bruce deachman
ontario reported 325 new covid-19 cases and no new deaths on monday, the day that canada opened its land border with the u.s. for the first time since march 2020.
toronto, with 90 new cases, peel, with 47, and hamilton and york, with 29 each, were the province’s worst-hit regions.
there were four new confirmed cases in ottawa, according to public health ontario, bringing the city’s total to 27,868 since the pandemic’s start. due to different data-collection times, those figures may not match those issued later in the day by ottawa public health.
in other health units in the region, leeds, grenville and lanark reported no new cases, as did renfrew county, while kingston confirmed four new cases. eastern ontario health unit saw its confirmed case numbers go up by three.
the new figures raise ontario’s total number of covid cases since january 2020 to 552,804 and its death toll to 9,407. there are 11,782 active cases in the province.
there are 94 covid patients currently in ontario hospitals, although approximately 10 per cent of hospitals did not submit data. there are 113 patients in icu with covid-related illnesses, 83 of them diagnosed with covid. there are 70 patients on ventilators with covid-related illnesses, 51 of them currently with covid.
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additionally, 29,949 vaccine doses were administered in the province in the 24-hour period ending sunday evening, for a province-wide total of 19,902,159. a total of 9,343,260 ontarians have been fully vaccinated.
meanwhile, canada eased restrictions for american travellers monday, allowing non-essential u.s. travellers who’ve had a full course of a health canada-approved covid-19 vaccine into the country, provided it’s been 14 days since their last dose and they have proof of a negative covid-19 molecular test within the last 72 hours.

for businesses in ontario’s border region of niagara, which relies heavily on tourism, the rolling back of restrictions has been highly anticipated. but the mayor of niagara falls said while his city is glad to finally be approaching some version of normalcy, he doesn’t expect a “mad rush” of american tourists heading for the border this week.

mayor jim diodati has been calling for the reopening of the border for months, saying the city’s economy relies heavily on tourists.
diodati said he believes the people who would want to cross the border right away are those hoping to reunite with relatives and friends they haven’t seen in almost two years, as well as those who want to check on properties they have in canada.
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“i think that’s going to be top of mind when the border opens … but i don’t expect it’s going to be fast and furious,” he said in an interview.
“i think it’s going to be gradual, like a dimmer switch, because for day trippers, it’s an awful lot of work and hoops to jump through in order to be able to cross that border. so i’m not anticipating an influx of american tourists right off the hop.
— with files from the canadian press

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