Coronavirus latest: Canada closes limit with U.S. to all though essential travel

The latest:

• Border no longer open for routine, infrequent trade between Canada and U.S.
• Canadians stranded in Peru in dilapidation on removing assistance to leave a country.
•  Flight bringing Canadians home from Morocco is approaching to land in Montreal.
• Cruise boat approaches Genoa, Italy amid pathogen fears.
• Governors of Illinois, New York and California order people to stay home.
• Starbucks to tighten stores, pierce to drive-thru and delivery.
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The longest unprotected limit between two countries is now sealed to non-essential traffic, such as tourists and people looking to do some shopping, in an bid to delayed a widespread of COVID-19.  The new normal during Canada-U.S. limit crossings went into outcome during midnight.

Under a common agreement, truckers and workers essential to progressing supply lines are giveaway from a transport order. Also giveaway are health professionals and others who work on one side of a limit though live on a other. Students who reason current visas, proxy unfamiliar workers and anyone with current work responsibilities competence also cross.

The anathema on non-essential cross-border transport will stay in place for during slightest 30 days. Ottawa has also concluded to bar all haven seekers entering Canada by strange crossings for a generation of a agreement. Washington has enacted a identical arrangement with Mexico.

At midnight tonight, we’re restricting all non-essential transport opposite a Canada-US limit to delayed a widespread of COVID-19 and keep we safe. But we’ll safety supply bondage so food, fuel, and life-saving medicines can continue to strech people on both sides of a border.

mdash;@JustinTrudeau

An Air Canada moody bringing a organisation of Canadians home from Morocco amid a tellurian coronavirus pestilence is approaching to land in Montreal on Saturday. The repatriation moody vacating from Casablanca was organised with a assistance of a sovereign government.

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The supervision has urged all Canadians who are abroad to lapse home quickly, though some have struggled to find flights as they face limit restrictions and singular travel options as airlines cut capacity. For Canadians stranded in Morocco, they will have to compensate for repatriation given it’s a blurb moody — not a rescue moody franchised by a Canadian government. In India, Canadians are scrambling to get home as India prepares to anathema all incoming general flights for a week. 

For some-more than 800 Canadians stranded in Peru, there is new pressure from a Peruvian supervision to leave this weekend. Peru, that tighten down all borders and airports on Mar 16, pronounced that as of Sunday, it will no longer support any repatriation efforts by unfamiliar governments.

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The series of cases of the respiratory illness in Canada has increased beyond 1,000, for a sum of 1,087. There were 214 new cases on Friday, a many in one day in Canada given a pestilence was announced on Mar 11.

Worldwide, more than 274,800 people have been putrescent and 11,389 have died, according to a Reuters tally. 

In a United States, Connecticut, Illinois and New York have assimilated California in grouping non-essential workers to sojourn during home to delayed a widespread of a virus, that has claimed some-more than 200 lives in a U.S.

In business,  Air Canada is laying off more than 5,100 moody attendants as a airline cuts routes and parks planes due to COVID-19, a kinship central pronounced on Friday. The airline had already pronounced it skeleton to “gradually postpone a infancy of a general and U.S. transborder flights” by Mar 31.

Wesley Lesosky, president of CUPE’s Air Canada component, pronounced he has “never seen layoffs like this.”

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WestJet has pronounced it is suspending general transport as of Sunday for a 30-day period. Swoop, a bonus conduit owned by WestJet Airlines, will do a same, and said it is now working to move home some-more than 2,300 Swoop passengers who are still outward of Canada. 

Sunwing Airlines said it expects to have all of a customers, many of whom are during Mexican or Caribbean resorts, behind home by Monday. Sunwing is also charity dull seats on a repatriation flights giveaway of assign to any Canadians stranded in sun-kissed tools of a hemisphere, including non-Sunwing customers.

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Starbucks is temporarily shortening use in both Canada and a United States as well, closing cafes and relocating to drive-thru and smoothness instead. Some exceptions will be made, such as locations in and around hospitals, and a closure doesn’t directly impact protected stores. In a news release, Starbucks Canada president Lori Digulla said stores will sojourn sealed for dual weeks, while staff will continue to be paid for a subsequent 30 days, either they work or not.

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Italy, with a 60 million citizens, increasing a genocide fee by 627 on Friday, to 4,032 lives mislaid to a virus. It is a largest daily arise in comprehensive terms given a contamination emerged in a republic a month ago. On Thursday, Italy’s genocide fee surpassed that of China, a republic with a race some-more than 20 times incomparable and where a conflict initial began.

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More than 86,000 people have recovered from a virus, mostly in China, though a gait is many slower than its spread. Recovery takes dual weeks or so for amiable cases, though can be adult to 6 weeks for those that spin serious, according to a World Health Organization.

Though a illness is amiable in many people, a aged are quite receptive to vicious symptoms. Italy has a world’s second-oldest population, and a immeasurable infancy of a passed — 87 per cent — were over 70.

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People with underlying health issues competence also have an increasing odds for building vicious complications. Theresa Tam, Canada’s arch open health officer, says Indigenous people also face a aloft risk given of health inequities, aloft rates of underlying conditions and a problems that come with vital in remote communities.

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Read on for a demeanour during what’s function in Canada, a U.S. and other areas of a universe trade with a coronavirus pandemic. Plus, lane a latest numbers here.

Here’s what’s function in a provinces and territories

British Columbia announced 77 new COVID-19 cases, bringing a sum to 348. At a same time, a City of Vancouver pronounced all playgrounds will tighten down and all restaurants contingency stop any dine-in services by a finish of Friday or face prosecution, as partial of a horde of new policies denounced a day after a range announced a state of emergency. “The changes being announced now are major. They meant … many, many people will be laid off,” pronounced Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart. Read some-more about what’s function in B.C.

Ontario is rising an online portal for students who can’t go to category given of COVID-19. Doug Ford’s supervision pronounced a module will embody math and preparation material, in both English and French. The range saw 60 new cases reported Friday, pulling a provincial sum past 300. It comes a day after officials pronounced a man in his 50s with an underlying health condition, no new transport story outward Canada or known contact with a COVID-19 case had died. The Milton, Ont., man’s genocide is a second that health officials in a range have associated to a virus.

• In Toronto, a city is charity people extensions on things like water bills and skill taxes. Sources have told CBC Toronto that a guard during a Toronto South Detention Centre tested certain for COVID-19.
• In Ottawa, a city’s top alloy took questions from a open on COVID-19 and how the nation’s collateral is doing it.
• In a Kitchener-Waterloo area, hospitals are observant they have adequate masks and sanitizers for now, though are operative with suppliers and usurpation donations to try and boost their stock.

Health Minister Christine Elliott — who has faced increasing questions over exam availability, wait times for testing and sanatorium capacity — pronounced Thursday a range has combined some-more telehealth lines and is operative on improving lab testing. Read some-more about what’s function in Ontario.

Alberta’s credit rating was downgraded after a tellurian credit group pronounced a bill is ‘no longer valid,’ and a range hasn’t finished adequate to respond to mercantile pressures from a COVID-19 pandemic. The day before, a province’s top alloy urged people to take a risks from COVID-19 severely as a range reported a initial death. Dr. Deena Hinshaw pronounced Thursday that an Edmonton male in his 60s died late Wednesday. The range is doing “all we can to quarrel a widespread of a virus,” Hinshaw said. “But to do this, we will need everyone’s help.” Read some-more about what’s function in Alberta, including information about how Alberta Health Services rubbed a box of a doctor who tested certain for COVID-19.

Police in a Quebec collateral have arrested a COVID-19 studious who defied quarantine orders. The chairman was arrested while out for a wander in Quebec City’s Limoilou neighbourhood. As a range tries to clamp down on COVID-19, some hotels are scheming to step up in box they are indispensable to residence non-infected sanatorium patients to make space in a province’s health facilities. Read some-more about what’s function in Quebec.

Saskatchewan announced it will use daycare comforts inside schools to yield caring for a children of health-care workers and other “essential” workers. The province, that as of Friday afternoon was reporting 26 confirmed and unreserved cases, has criminialized open gatherings of some-more than 50 people. But a arch medical officer of health wants people to equivocate groups of some-more than five. The City of Regina announced a possess state of puncture on Friday, while restaurants and bars in a range are being sealed for dine-in service, and are now singular to pickup and delivery. Read some-more about what’s function in Saskatchewan.

Manitoba announced a state of puncture Friday to respond to a pandemic. The province, like many others, pronounced Thursday it is reviewing a register of vicious reserve like protecting rigging for health-care workers and ventilators. More ventilators are on a way, officials said, and while a supply of protecting rigging is plain for now, a range has pronounced it will buy more. Read some-more about what’s function in Manitoba, that delivered a bill Thursday amid mercantile misunderstanding associated to a pandemic.

In New Brunswick, no new cases were announced for a second day in a row, a day after a range announced a state of emergency. Still, arch medical officer Dr. Jennifer Russell said two days in a quarrel though any new cases “doesn’t meant a whole lot” due to a incubation duration of a virus. Russell pronounced she expects to see some-more cases in a entrance days, noting returning travellers competence not be exhibiting any symptoms yet. On a same day, Premier Blaine Higgs pronounced a provincial bill is already archaic due to COVID-19’s mercantile fallout. Read some-more about what’s function in N.B.

Health officials in Nova Scotia reported one new unreserved COVID-19 box on Friday. The new box comes after a range pronounced it is allocating $1 million to assistance a province’s food banks amid flourishing mercantile repairs caused by COVID-19. The province, which banned evictions of unprotected people during a crisis, has pronounced some-more supports will be rolled out in a days ahead. Alcohol sales in a range have soared amid panic buying, while those operative in obsession services are planning ahead in box of wine store closures. They are endangered those going by ethanol withdrawal will finish adult in hospital, removal health-care resources divided from a pandemic. Read some-more about what’s function in Nova Scotia.

The tip alloy in P.E.I. is propelling people to honour self-isolation and amicable enmity protocols, saying a range wants to equivocate a sheer situations seen in places like Italy. Read some-more about what’s function on P.E.I.

Newfoundland and Labrador’s health apportion pronounced Friday designated COVID-19 exam sites are entrance — though will be by appointment only. The news comes after a top preparation central in Newfoundland and Labrador says all students between kindergarten and Grade 9 will pass to a subsequent grade, “no matter what time we get back.” Tony Stack, CEO of a Newfoundland and Labrador English School District, pronounced a devise for high propagandize students is not nonetheless finalized. Read some-more about what’s function in N.L.

There are no reported cases of COVID-19 in Canada’s North, though efforts are underway to safeguard governments are prepared. Yukon is environment adult a respiratory comment centre, and a First Nation village in a Northwest Territories declared a state of puncture in a bid to strengthen a elders. Read some-more about what’s function in a North.

Here’s a demeanour during a series of cases — including deaths and recoveries — by province:

• British Columbia: 348 reliable cases, including 5 recovered and 8 deaths.
• Ontario: 318 reliable cases, including 5 recovered and dual deaths.
• Alberta: 195 reliable cases, including 3 recovered and one death.
• Quebec: 139 reliable cases, including one recovered and one death.
• Saskatchewan: 26 confirmed and unreserved cases.
• Manitoba: 17 reliable and unreserved cases.
• New Brunswick: 11 reliable and unreserved cases.
• Nova Scotia: 15 reliable and unreserved cases.
• Prince Edward Island: Two cases a range lists as positive.
• Newfoundland and Labrador: Four confirmed and unreserved cases.
• Repatriated Canadians: 12 reliable cases.

Presumptive cases are people who have tested positive, though still wait acknowledgment with a National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg. Not all provinces are inventory sum on those who have recovered. The new COVID-19 associated genocide in Japan is not now enclosed in a province-by-province sum of cases.

Here’s what’s function in a U.S.

From Reuters and The Associated Press, updated during 7:00 a.m. ET

New Jersey’s administrator was approaching on Saturday to follow 4 other states — California, New York, Illinois and Connecticut — demanding that millions of Americans close adult emporium and stay home.

The unconditional state-by-state open health restrictions, rare in extent and scope, combined to a stretch being gifted among typical Americans even as a pestilence seemed to tighten in on a top levels of energy in a nation’s capital.

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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said that starting Sunday, all workers in non-essential businesses contingency stay home as many as probable and all gatherings of any stretch will be criminialized in a state of some-more than 19 million people. He acted after California all though confined a 40 million residents to their homes.

In Washington, an assistance to U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence, heading a White House charge force shaped to fight a outbreak, tested certain for a virus, though conjunction President Donald Trump nor Pence have had tighten hit with a individual, Pence’s press secretary, Katie Miller, pronounced in a matter on Friday.

Pence’s bureau was told of a certain exam on Friday evening, and officials were seeking to establish who a staffer competence have exposed, Miller said.

Meanwhile, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced on Friday that a U.S. taxation filing day will be extended from Apr 15 to Jul 15.  He speedy all taxpayers who competence have refunds to record now.

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The sum series of famous U.S. coronavirus cases has risen exponentially in new days, climbing past 18,000 in a surge that health officials attributed in vast partial to an boost in diagnostic testing.

Here’s what’s function in Europe

From The Associated Press and Reuters, updated during 7:00 a.m. ET

Italy has imposed serve restrictions on open life.  The supervision has announced all parks, open gardens and playgrounds will be sealed in Italy starting Saturday for during slightest 5 days. The genocide fee in Italy leapt by 627 to 4,032 on Friday, an increase of 18.4 per cent, by distant a largest daily arise in absolute terms given a contamination emerged a month ago. 

Spain said it skeleton to spin a Madrid discussion centre into a giant troops hospital, as Europe’s second-worst outbreak claimed another 235 lives.

France reported 78 new deaths on Friday, holding a sum to 450, an boost of 21 per cent. 

Germany may make a national curfew if a country’s 83 million people destroy to keep their stretch from any other this weekend. 

The U.K. government says it’s shipping vast reserve of protecting apparatus to hospitals.  Britain lags behind Italy, Spain and France in a widespread of a new coronavirus, though already a country’s overstretched health complement is creaking.

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson systematic a closure of pubs, restaurants, gyms, nightclubs and other businesses from Friday to delayed a widespread of a virus.

Here’s what’s function in Asia

From Reuters and The Associated Press, updated during 7:30 a.m. ET

Indonesia’s sum of cases rose to 450, with 38 deaths, a health method central pronounced on Saturday. This comes a day after a administrator of Jakarta announced a state of puncture in a Indonesian collateral for a subsequent dual weeks.

Malaysia’s cases jumped to 1,183 on Saturday with 4 deaths, and a supervision warned of some-more cases subsequent week as it looks for people who attended a mass eremite entertainment associated to a majority of a cases. Malaysia will muster its army, starting Sunday, to assistance make curbs on movement.

Vietnam will postpone all inbound general flights, the government pronounced in a matter on Saturday.

All 41 of a new reliable cases in China were alien from overseas, a country’s National Health Commission pronounced on Saturday. 

In Thailand, an conflict of a pathogen has been traced to a fighting eventuality that took place during a commencement of March. There are now 72 cases of COVID-19 from 3 fighting stadiums given a initial cluster of delivery was reported from one compare during Lumpinee Boxing Stadium in Bangkok hold on Mar 6. Since those clusters were reported, a series of reliable cases in Thailand has jumped to 322, doubling a series within a week.

Though a widespread erupted in China in December, and South Korea during one theatre had a second-most infections, both subsequently succeeded in gloomy domestic delivery of a virus.

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South Korea reported 147 new coronavirus infections on Saturday, according to a Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The new cases move a country’s sum to 8,799. The country’s choosing elect says all electorate will be compulsory to wear masks and use disposable gloves during list booths during a Apr 15 parliamentary elections.

Here’s a demeanour during some other developments around COVID-19

• Some Canadians anticipating to defer debt payments given of a mercantile impact of COVID-19 are carrying a tough time getting answers from Canada’s vast banks. The country’s 6 vast banks have pronounced they would work with “small business banking business on a case-by-case basement to yield stretchable solutions” to assistance people cope. But one patron said, when he called, a bank “had no criteria for what they’re looking for” in sequence to extend a deferral. Read more about what’s function in a business world, including a latest from jumpy batch markets.

•  Iran’s genocide fee from a coronavirus conflict rose on Saturday by some-more than 100 to 1,556, and a sum series of people putrescent now exceeds 20,000, a health method official said. 

• Saudi Arabia, that has announced a $31.93 billion US support package, has dangling all domestic flights, buses, taxis and trains for 14 days starting Saturday.

• South Africa announced coronavirus cases jumped to 202, a many in a sub-Saharan region, and a country’s largest airfield announced that foreigners would not be authorised to disembark. Another African republic announced a initial case, Cape Verde. Thirty-seven countries on a continent now have cases, with a sum now good above 800.

• Brazil is the hardest-hit republic in Latin America, with reliable cases jumping by over 280 on Friday to 904, with 11 deaths total. Several countries in Latin America are among a slightest prepared in a universe for a pandemic, with health-care systems already stretched thin. Peruvian Minister of Defence Walter Martos previously told internal America TV that a republic has reduction than 400 respirators available. “It’s not a lot,” he said. “Really, we don’t have a infrastructure that grown nations do.”

• Australia has ratcheted adult a amicable enmity regulations to delayed a widespread of a novel coronavirus, perfectionist indoor venues yield during slightest 4 block metres of space per person. The space imprisonment announced Friday follows a anathema on Wednesday of non-essential indoor gatherings of some-more than 100 people, including weddings and restaurants. Gatherings deliberate essential embody schools, supermarkets and workplaces, that are exempt. Australia has also tightened regulations on transport to and from remote Indigenous communities in a bid to gangling them COVID-19 outbreaks.

• Netflix is rising a $100M US service fund for workers in a artistic village as a film and radio attention suffers. The account will be distributed to “third parties and nonprofits providing puncture service to out-of-work organisation and expel in a countries where we have a vast prolongation base,” according to a statement. That includes $1 million to be common between a AFC, before famous as a Actors Fund of Canada, and Fondation des Artistes in Canada.

• Starting Tuesday, Cuba will stop allowing foreigners to enter a island, with a difference of residents. President Miguel Diaz-Canel finished a proclamation on state television late on Friday, observant that a sequence would stay in place for 30 days. As of Friday, a island republic had announced 16 cases of COVID-19 and one death, all in people who had trafficked abroad or been in approach hit with a traveller. 

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