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This one-day unfavorable test requirement for international visitation to the U.S., which reopened totally less than a month earlier, will be enjoyed carefully by the U.S. travel sector, wary that the reboot of its healing will now stall.
Lebawit Lily Girma
When the Biden Administration announced tighter limitations on U.S. global arrivals on Thursday, the details were sparse beyond the need for unfavorable Covid test results one calendar day before boarding a flight bound for America.
But the Centers of Disease Control (CDC) on Friday updated and verified the entry requirements, applying to all inbound tourists two years and older who are going back to the U.S., consisting of U.S. residents and locals.
Guests flying into the United States are needed to provide:
- A negative antigen viral test taken within one calendar day prior to boarding the plane, or alternatively, documentation showing healing from Covid within 90 days prior to the flight; and
- A finished and signed disclosure and attestation form sent to the airline prior to boarding.
For non-U.S. people, the above screening requirements remain in addition to complete vaccination status, unless exemptions are fulfilled.
The rules begin starting at midnight on Monday, December 6. The complete upgraded CDC order is here.