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International passengers traveling to the U. S. U. S. citizens will no longer have to provide evidence of covid vaccination starting Thursday at midnight, when the coronavirus physical emergency officially ended.
Biden’s administration eliminated its coronavirus requirement last June, but has maintained its vaccination policy for foreign travelers. In February, the House of Representatives voted to end the last remaining pandemic restrictions on May 11.
“As we continue to monitor the evolution of Covid-19 status and the emergence of variants of the virus, we have the equipment to stumble and respond to the emergence of a high-impact variant,” President Biden said in a proclamation issued May 1. . .
“Given the progress we have made and based on the most recent direction from our public fitness experts, I have decided that we no longer want the foreign air restrictions I imposed in October 2021. “
For 18 months, at the height of the pandemic, the U. S. The U. S. closed its borders to foreigners, separating families and costing global industry billions of dollars.
In November 2021, those restrictions were eased and foreigners were welcomed to the United States with wonderful fanfare. Its testing rule in June last year still kept vaccines, arguing they were still needed to slow the spread of new variants of the virus entering the country.
Since last summer, the U. S. has been working on the U. S. The U. S. has been one of the few remaining countries to maintain coronavirus restrictions, prompting many ers to choose destinations that welcome them unconditionally.
Regulations banned world No. 1 tennis player Novak Djokovic from participating in the US Open in 2022 because he is not vaccinated.
The initial U. S. ban The U. S. economy abroad decimated the tourism sector of the U. S. economy. The U. S. and resulted in losses of nearly $300 billion in guest spending and more than a million U. S. jobs. According to the U. S. Travel Association, U. S. The U. S. Food and Drug Administration is an industry group.
Until April last year, all passengers traveling to or within the United States had to wear masks on planes, a questionable order that sparked fights and altercations on planes and deterred some foreign travelers from taking long-haul flights.
Even after restrictions were relaxed, spending through foreign travelers in the U. S. declinedU. S. travel rates still declined 78 percent in March 2022 from 2019 and 56 percent for business travel, the organization said.
“Today’s action to lift the vaccine requirement removes a vital barrier to access for many global travelers, moving our industry and our country forward,” Geoff Freeman, the association’s lead executive, said after the May 11 end date was announced.
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