U.S. to drop COVID testing for incoming international air travelers

So foreigners don’t need to be checked and follow rules like US citizens…..what a crock. Buck Fiden’s administration will drop pre-departure COVID-19 international air testing requirements effective Sunday at 12:01 a.m. after heavy lobbying from airlines and the travel industry, a senior administration official told Reuters.

The Biden administration will announce on Friday that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will no longer require pre-departure COVID-19 testing for travelers coming to the United States after it determined based on the science and data that this requirement is no longer necessary. CDC will do a reassessment of this decision in 90 days, the official said.

Since December, the CDC has required travelers to test negative within one day before flights to the United States but does not require testing for land border crossings.

The official said, “If there is a need to reinstate a pre-departure testing requirement — including due to a new, concerning variant — CDC will not hesitate to act.”

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American Airlines Chief Executive Robert Isom said last week at a conference that the testing requirements were “nonsensical” and were “depressing” leisure and business travel.

Airlines have said that many Americans are not traveling internationally because of concerns they will test positive and be stranded abroad.

Isom said 75% of countries American serves do not have testing requirements.

“We’re really frustrated and this is something that is damaging not only U.S. travel but it just doesn’t make sense,” Isom said last week.

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In December, the CDC tightened requirements for international air travelers to get a negative test within one day rather than three days of coming to the United States.

1 Comment

  1. janice

    That’s A Bunch Of Bull$h*t That Foreigner’s Don’t Have To Follow The Rule’s And Take Their Medicine-Shot’s Like Everybody Else Has To Do! Why In The Hell Should They Be Exempt? Huh? Special Priviledge’s? Bull$h*t, They Are No Better Than Everyone Else! Buck Q Biden!

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