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OTTAWA — Statistics sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ says the number of people travelling to sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ in January was up from a year earlier, but remained a fraction of where it was before the COVID-19 pandemic.

The agency says the number of trips by U.S. residents to sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ in January was 218,600, up from 86,500 a year earlier, but well short of the 1.2 million in January 2020.

The number of residents of countries other than the U.S. arriving in sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ in January totalled 79,700, up from 34,500 in January 2021, however that total was nearly 365,600 in January 2020.

Statistics sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ says Canadian residents returned from 690,200 trips to the United States in January, up from 265,000 a year earlier, but down from the 3.1 million trips in January 2020.

The number of Canadian residents returning from visiting overseas totalled 463,700 in January, up from 160,500 in January 2021, but down from 1.4 million in January 2020.

As COVID-19 cases surged at the end of last year, Ottawa advised Canadians on Dec. 15 to avoid non-essential travel outside of sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½. and, on Dec. 21, required all travellers entering sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ to provide a negative COVID-19 molecular test.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 23, 2022.

The Canadian Press