The tourism industry has been lobbying the White House for months to lift restrictions weighing on the company
Neither antigens nor PCR. As of today, travelers arriving in the United States will not need to prove they are covid-free. The Center for Infectious Disease Control (CDC) released the decision this Friday, which is more political and economic than public health.
The tourism industry has been lobbying the White House for months to lift restrictions on the company. Since January last year, tourists could enter the United States if they had previously demonstrated that they did not have the dreaded virus in their bodies with a sample of antigens. That was a step beyond the need to test it with PCR, which was changed last December when the wave of omicron hit. Due to its virulence, the need to limit the testing window to 24 hours prior to the game forced the standards to be lowered.
That had led to a lucrative business at the airports, which nevertheless pales in comparison to that of tour operators, hotel chains and anything else the industry leaves behind in the economy, business executives told President Joe Biden at a meeting at the White House last month. The local tourism sector is still seven points below pre-pandemic levels, while international tourism is at 14% of 2020 levels. States. The restrictions were never intended to protect other airline passengers, but to create invisible barriers against strains of the virus developing in other countries.
Source: La Verdad
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