The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is now recommending Americans not to travel to Canada amid an Omicron fueled Covid surge striking both nations.
The agency moved Canada to 'Level 4' of its Covid travel advisory recommendations on Monday., the highest danger level a country can receive, and recommends against travel to the country.
It warns that people traveling to Canada should be fully vaccinated, and even those that are still suffer some risk of being infected and spreading Covid variants.
Canada joins more than 80 countries currently designated as having a 'Level 4' travel risk, including the UK, France, Italy and a handful of other European and African nations.
Canada has been designated as danger 'Level 4' for American travelers by the CDC. The agency now recommends Americans not to travel to the nation currently suffering a surge in cases. Pictured: A man in Toronto, Ontario, receives a Covid test on June 15
Like the U.S., Canada has suffered a shortage of available tests amid a surge in demand. Many public testing sites have seen long lines. Pictured: People line up outside a testing center in Toronto, Ontario, on December 29
America's neighbor is currently suffering its worst Covid surge yet, eclipsing over 40,000 new cases per day last week - smashing the previous record of around 9,000 per day. It has also sequenced the sixth most Omicron cases as any country in the world, with 23,620 confirmed as of Monday afternoon.
In Canada, hospitals are being filled - and slowly being
