Canada Aiming To Allow Vaccinated Americans Into Country By Mid-August: Trudeau to Premiers
Segun Akanni, Toronto, Canada 
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau holds a news conference updating the Iran plane crash in Ottawa on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020, as Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan (left) and Chief of Defence Staff Jonathan Vance look on. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government is aiming to allow fully vaccinated U.S. citizens and permanent residents into Canada by mid-August.
Trudeau also says he told the premiers by phone that if the current vaccination rate remains on its current trajectory, fully vaccinated travellers from around the world could be arriving by early September.
The Prime Minister’s Office broke the news in a readout from today’s COVID-19 call with the premiers and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc.
NEW: Prime Minister @JustinTrudeau tells Premiers if we stay on our current vaccination paths Canada could start allowing non-essential travel with the US for fully vaccinated people by mid-August and fully vaxxed travellers from all other countries by early September #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/KVi67mkQOU
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Trudeau also boasted Canada is leading the G20 countries in vaccination rates, with 80 per cent of eligible Canadians having received at least one vaccine dose. More than half are fully vaccinated, Trudeau said.
Pressure has been mounting on the federal government to continue to ease the restrictions at the border, which have been in effect since March of last year.
