US: ‘New system’ for international travel under consideration – Vaccination certificate likely to be used

The USA develop a “new system for international travelWhich will include tracking the contacts of travelers, when the bans that prevent many people from around the world from entering the country will finally be lifted.

The coordinator of the White House for the treatment of Covid-19, o Jeff Zienz, told the Travel and Tourism Advisory Committee that the government not plans to immediately relax the restrictions, due to the Delta variant, as broadcast by ΑΠΕ ΜΠΕ, citing Reuters.

At the beginning of August, the international agency reported that the White House intended to make the vaccination of foreign visitors to enter the country.

Zienz said the new system, which would be “safer”, would replace the existing restrictions and that Washington was “considering” the possibility of asking visitors to be vaccinated for Covid-19.

“Vaccination rates matter both here and in other countries “, he added, urging travel companies such as airlines to make mandatory vaccination of their employees.

Extraordinary travel restrictions were initially imposed on those coming from China, in January 2020. Since then many other countries have been added, with the most recent being India, in May.

Government wants to lift travel restrictions “as soon as we can“, Continued Zienz.

The new system will allow data collection for tracking traveler contacts, so that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) be able to contact them if they are likely to have been exposed to the new one coronavirus.

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