Washington:
All air passengers bound for the United States will need a adverse Covid-19 test inside 3 days of their departure, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stated Tuesday.
“Testing does not eliminate all risk but when combined with a period of staying at home and everyday precautions like wearing masks and social distancing, it can make travel safer,” stated CDC Director Robert Redfield.
The policy will take impact on January 26, and expands on a preceding testing rule that targeted Britain and came into impact in December, following the emergence of a coronavirus variant believed to be more transmissible.
Other variants of concern have also been reported in South Africa and Brazil. On Tuesday, Japan stated it was working to isolate and analyze a variant detected in 4 passengers who arrived from Brazil.
The CDC also recommends that travelers get tested once again 3 to 5 days just after their arrival, and keep dwelling for at least seven days.
The test should be for “current infection” and passengers are essential to provide written proof of its outcome to airlines prior to they are permitted to board.
Some epidemiologists have warned it is most likely that new, more transmissible variants are currently establishing themselves in the United States, exactly where more than 379,000 persons have died from Covid-19 and more than 3,000 more are dying each day.
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