Holidaymakers looking to jet off to the United States of America will need to be fully vaccinated against Covid in order travel to the country, according to a White House official.
The Biden administration is set to impose the vaccine mandate on almost all foreign visitors to America as part of a larger plan to re-open the country’s border.
The move to demand visitors has been vaccinated would be part of the US eventually lifting travel restrictions that bar much of the world, including the UK and Europe, from entering America.
Foreign travellers from dozens of countries have been banned from entering the US since the start of the pandemic, in March 2020.
According to the White House official, speaking to Reuters on Wednesday, the White House is not ready to lift travel restrictions just yet because of the rising number of Covid cases in the US, the official claimed.
The Biden administration is said to have set up an inter-agency working group that’s tasked with ensuring the US has ‘a new system ready for when we can reopen travel’, the official said.
The source added that the plan includes ‘a phased approach that over time will mean, with limited exceptions, that foreign nationals traveling to the United States (from all countries) need to be fully vaccinated.’
On Monday the UK announced that fully vaccinated travellers from the US and EU would be allowed back into the country without the need to quarantine for 10 days.
The European Union (EU) has reopened its borders to American tourists in June.
Editor-in-Chief | Carl D. Pearson has been involved in British politics and media from an early age, with the key knowledge of what it takes to run a news organisation for the 21st century. Mr Pearson, as Editor-in-chief, is responsible for supervising the daily tasks of publishing media and content to UNN’s website and various platforms.
[sibwp_form id=4]
