U.S. lifts COVID-19 test requirement for international travel

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The Biden administration is lifting its requirement that international air travellers to the U.S. take a COVID-19 test within a day before boarding their flights, easing one of the last remaining government mandates meant to contain the spread of the coronavirus.

A senior administration official said the mandate expires Sunday at 12:01 a.m. EDT, saying the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has determined that it's no longer necessary. The official, speaking Friday on the condition of anonymity to preview the formal announcement, said that the agency would reevaluate the need for the testing requirement every 90 days and that it could be reinstated if a troubling new variant emerges.

In November, as the highly transmissible omicron variant swept the world, the Biden administration toughened the requirement and required all travelers, regardless of vaccination status, to test within a day of travel to the U.S. In February, the groups argued the testing requirement was obsolete because of the high number of Omicron cases already in every state, higher vaccinations rates and new treatments for the virus.

 

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Fantastic news

Don't think.thats to bright with covid still here

Gross

And here in canada our lord high commander still won’t let unvaccinated travel by air unvaccinated…

About bloody time!! Waste of time and served no purpose the tests that didn't test for any virus whatsoever!!

Hey JustinTrudeau you still going to hold people hostage?!?!

Doesn’t help us Pure Bloods.

And look at what our idiots in Ottawa are doing. And I don’t mean the lies about the EA or any of the other countless scandals. I’m talking about their intentional disruption of our ability to travel and the mess they’ve made of the airports. They surely must hate all of us.

Canada sucks so bad right now

Inflation highest since 1981

Trudeau follows Biden like a puppy, so maybe….?

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