The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced Wednesday that foreign travelers will no longer have to go through an enhanced COVID-19 check upon arrival in the United States.
The CDC said in its announcement that foreign arrivals will not be screened for COVID-19 because “symptom-based detection is of limited efficacy” and that asymptomatic passengers can simply continue to transmit the virus while passing the test. Instead, CDC will make its COVID. -19 efforts “towards more effective individual passenger mitigation efforts. “
Travellers from (or had recently travelled) to China, Iran, the European Schengen area, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Brazil were in the past included in improved compulsory aptitude tests.
In addition, foreign flights will no longer be the airports designated en route from 14 September.
Passengers with enhanced controls must land in Boston, Chicago O’Hare, Dallas-Fort Worth, Detroit, Honolulu, Houston, Atlanta, New York JFK, Miami, Los Angeles, Washington-Dulles, Newark, Seattle or San Francisco.
A spokesperson for Airlines for America told Reuters that its member airlines “no longer make sense to continue checking at those 15 airports given the incredibly low number of passengers who, according to the CDC, have a potential fitness problem. “
Of the 675,000 passengers examined at all 15 airports, fewer than 15 were shown to COVID-19.
The rest of the screening regulations will apply to both foreign arrivals and Americans returning to the United States from abroad.
Towards the end of enhanced projections, CDC will work on passenger physical education, electronic strategies to collect tactile passenger information, higher tests, a more physically powerful reaction to airport disease, and take a step forward at US ports of entry. But it’s not the first time
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