Until June 21, the United States, Canada and Mexico will keep their borders closed

The US Department of Homeland Security announced that its land borders with Canada and Mexico will remain closed to all non-essential travel until at least June 21.

Thus this is the fourteenth time that the bilateral travel ban between the United States and its North American neighbors has been extended monthly since it was initially implemented in March 2020 as part of efforts to curb the spread of Covid-19.

The Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Homeland Security, indicated that it is “working closely with Canada and Mexico to safely ease restrictions as conditions improve,” although no robust plans have yet emerged to lift the restrictions.

Although the United States continues to lead the world in terms of total Covid-19 cases, its infection rates are now steadily falling as vaccination rates rise.

In the past year, Canada appeared to have maintained better control over the spread of the virus; But in recent months, the country has seen a spike in new cases, prompting the Canadian government to tighten travel restrictions, including requiring negative Covid-19 tests for all inbound air travelers and mandatory hotel quarantines.

It appears that the Canadian government is not in a hurry to reopen the borders, based on some previous statements by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the issue, who admitted that he prefers to wait for the entire US-Canadian border to reopen until 75 percent of your country’s population has been vaccinated.

Trudeau admits, “My instinct is to tell me that it will close in the face of the country, at least, until the fall of 2021.”

For its part, from Mexico, its government has been lenient regarding border controls on American travelers crossing into border cities in northern Mexico. Since the start of the pandemic, Mexico has not shut down air travel from other countries, and many Americans have spent a vacation south of the border amid Covid-19, as other destinations have remained closed.

However, it was announced a few days ago that the state of Quintana Roo, home to popular tourist sites such as Cancun, Cozumel, Riviera Maya and Tulum, was at risk of an “ imminent closure ”, given the increase in new cases in the region.

State Governor Carlos Joaquin said he believed the increase in tourism observed during the Spring Break and Easter weeks contributed to the increase in infections.

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