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| After more than a year of allowing only essential travel, Canada opened its border to vaccinated U.S. citizens on Monday. |
| If you're planning to take a trip up north soon, here are 11 things to know. |
| The U.S. has extended its closure to all Canadians making nonessential trips until at least Aug. 21. The same date applies to the border with Mexico. |
| It's Monday, and this is Coronavirus Watch from the USA TODAY Network. Here's more news you need to know: |
| • | The Pentagon will require members of the U.S. military to get the COVID-19 vaccine by Sept. 15, The Associated Press reported. | | • | Surging cases are filling beds at U.S. hospitals, which again are admitting more than 100,000 likely COVID-19 patients each week, a USA TODAY analysis of U.S. Health and Human Services data shows. Hospitals reported 66,390 likely COVID-19 patients in beds Saturday, up from 20,184 just four weeks earlier. | | • | Pediatric hospitals are filling with patients, too. Children's hospitals in Tennessee will be full by the end of this week, the state health department projected. In Florida, the 94 children admitted to Wolfson Children's Hospital in July was more than four times the number admitted in June. | | • | In South Carolina, where less than half the state's residents are fully vaccinated, Gov. Henry McMaster on Monday urged residents to get vaccinated but repeated parents will decide whether students wear masks in class. | | • | France is requiring people to show a QR code proving they have a special virus pass before they enter restaurants and cafes or travel across the country. | |
 | | SOURCE Johns Hopkins University data | | USA TODAY | |
| Today's numbers: The U.S. has reported more than 35.7 million COVID-19 cases and 616,800 deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Worldwide, there have been more than 203 million cases and more than 4.2 million deaths. About 59% of people in the U.S. have received at least one vaccine shot, and about 50% are fully vaccinated, according to the CDC. |
| Tracking the pandemic: See the numbers in your area here. See where cases are rising here. See vaccination rates here. And here, compare vaccinations rates worldwide and see which countries are using which vaccines. |
| – Grace Hauck, USA TODAY breaking news reporter, @grace_hauck |
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