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CDC Rescinds Order Requiring Negative COVID Test Prior to Flight to U.S.

CDC Rescinds Order Requiring Negative COVID Test Prior to Flight to U.S.

June 13, 2022

Effective yesterday, June 12, individuals are no longer required to provide a negative COVID test or evidence of recovery from COVID before boarding a flight to the U.S. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) rescinded the Order which instituted this requirement.

According to the CDC, “(t)he COVID-19 pandemic has now shifted to a new phase, due to the widespread uptake of highly effective COVID-19 vaccines, the availability of effective therapeutics, and the accrual of high rates of vaccine- and infection-induced immunity at the population level in the United States. Each of these measures has contributed to lower risk of severe disease and death across the United States. As a result, this requirement which was needed at an earlier stage in the pandemic may be withdrawn. CDC continues to recommend that those travelers boarding a flight to the U.S. get tested for current infection with a viral test as close to the time of departure as possible (no more than 3 days) and not travel if they are sick.”

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