The US government is about to finish the enhanced screening of some foreign passengers for COVID-19 and the needs of those flights arriving at 15 US airports, according to US and air officials and a document from the government noticed via Reuters.
Adjustments are expected to take effect on Monday, according to the draft deployment plan noted through Reuters, although that resolution may be delayed longer, U. S. officials said.
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In February, the leadership imposed increased screening needs on travelers who had traveled to China, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Iran and the Schengen region in Europe, and banned the maximum number of non-citizen Americans who were in the only countries that they came to the United States. . The document noted through Reuters indicates that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) “is changing its strategy and prioritizing other measures of public competence to decrease the threat of transmission of travel-related diseases. ” He said that of the 675,000 passengers screened at the 15 airports, “fewer than 15 are known to have COID-19s. ” A spokesman consistent with a CDC son did not promptly comment. The “current access strategy for foreign arrivals only covers a small component of the traveling public’s needs for significant resources and is not sustainable as the volume of travel increases,” the document says. The travelers, who numbered about 6,750 by day in late August, go through visual observations, temperature checks and comprehensive traveler reports. Anyone with symptoms of illness or imaginable exposure is referred for public fitness assessments. The plan to stop the checks was previously reported via Yahoo News. Last month, Reuters reported that the Trump administration’s efforts to require airlines to collect contact trace data from foreign passengers bound for the United States had failed, bringing five more people briefed on the matter and that such a mandate is unlikely this year. Airlines and Majo r management officials have been in talks for months about a long-standing CDC effort to require the collection and disclosure of tracking data on passengers arriving in the United States from foreign destinations. The administration also thought constant screening was required with security checks for all US air travelers and face shields at US airports, but decided not to adopt any of the mandates.
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