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The Byden administration is the last government obligation to lift the requirement for international air travelers to the United States to undergo a COVID-19 test within one day before boarding the plane and to contain the coronavirus epidemic. Relax one of them.
A senior government official said the mandate would expire at 12:01 EDT on Sunday and decided that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was no longer needed.
Officials will speak on Friday on anonymous terms to preview the official announcement, and the agency will reassess the need for testing requirements every 90 days and reinstate it if a nasty new variant emerges. Said that you can.
Tested last year as the Biden administration lifted the restrictions banning unnecessary travel from dozens of countries (most Europe, China, Brazil, South Africa, India and Iran) and instead focused on individual classification. Introduced requirements. The risks they pose to others. It has been associated with the requirement that foreign nonimmigrant adults traveling to the United States need to be fully vaccinated, with a limited exception.
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On the first mission, fully vaccinated individuals were able to show evidence of a negative test within 3 days of travel, while unvaccinated individuals received within 1 day of travel. I had to show the test.
In November, the highly contagious variant of Omicron swept the world, tightening requirements and requiring all travelers, regardless of vaccination status, to be tested within a day of their trip to the United States. Mandatory.
Airlines and tourism groups have been putting pressure on the government for months, pushing for the elimination of testing requirements, saying that people are discouraged from booking international travel. In many other countries, the testing requirements for fully vaccinated and boosted travelers have been slightly lifted to increase tourists.
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In February, the group claimed that testing requirements were abolished due to the large number of Omicron cases already in all states, high vaccination rates, and new treatments for the virus.