The CDC says that people with mixed-dose COVID-19 vaccines will be eligible to enter the United States.

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WASHINGTON – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that people who received doses of two or more different COVID-19 vaccines will be considered eligible to enter the United States next month.

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While the agency has not recommended the practice of mixed doses in the US, it now recognizes that it is an increasingly common vaccination strategy in other parts of the world.

That includes Canada, where nearly four million people are believed to have received doses of two different vaccines.

The CDC statement is one of the latest pieces in the puzzling delay in the gradual reopening of the Canada-United States border.

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The border news cascade began earlier this week when the White House announced that it would begin allowing fully vaccinated Canadians to return to the land border next month.

Officials in the Biden administration followed that today with the news that travel restrictions would begin to be lifted on November 8.