“That’s not like a violation of the Geneva Convention,” he said before going into the base of the tower to buy a bottle of water. “I just thought it’d be more like an hour.”Like several other travelers, he attributed the long wait to Americans who had failed to upload proof of vaccination and a recent negative coronavirus test to a Canadian government app. Once he reached the border booth, Mr. Guinnane said, he was questioned by a border guard for about five minutes in a process that typically takes less than a minute. The scene was similar hundreds of miles west at the International Rainbow Bridge that connects Niagara Falls, Ontario, and Niagara Falls, N.Y., where there were long delays, but not an exceptional number of vehicles. It is one of the few transborder bridges that allows pedestrians, but even they faced a 45-minute wait to be cleared into Canada.

Source: International New York Times August 09, 2021 22:30 UTC