Canadian Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau said on Thursday that he expects the closure of the United States-Canada border to come into effect overnight on Friday and was working with domestic carriers to bring home citizens stranded overseas.
Canada, which closed its borders to most foreign nationals this week, agreed with the
United States to close their shared border to "non-essential traffic" to curb transmission of the novel coronavirus.
Canada has 772 cases of the respiratory illness caused by coronavirus to date, and nine deaths.