WASHINGTON: The US raised Monday’s restrictions on trips from the long list of countries including Mexico, Canada and most of Europe, which allowed tourists to travel a long delayed trip and family members to be re-connected with loved ones after more than one and a half years.
pandemic.
Starting on Monday, the US accepted travelers who were fully vaccinated at the airport and Land border, eliminating Covid-19 restrictions from Trump administration.
New rules allow air travel from countries previously restricted as long as tourists have proof of vaccination and a negative Covid-19 test.
The journey of land from Mexico and Canada will need evidence of vaccination but there is no test.
The airline expects more tourists from Europe and elsewhere.
Data from travel companies and characteristic polish shows the airline increased between Britain and the US of 21% last month.
Changes will have a profound effect on the border with Mexico and Canada, where traveling back and forth is the way of life to a pandemic to hit and the US closes an insignificant trip.
Malls, restaurants and main road shops in US border cities have been destroyed by a lack of visitors from Mexico.
At boundaries with Canada, cross-boundary hockey competition is the tradition of the community until it is founded by a pandemic.
Churches that have members on both sides of the border hope to welcome the parish that they have not seen during the Covid-19 shutdown.
Loved ones have skipped holidays, birthdays, and funerals while air travel is not importantly forbidden, and they are now eager to be re-connected.
American partner River Robinson could not be in Canada for the birth of their baby boy 17 months ago because of the closure of the border related to a pandemic.
He was happy to hear the US reopen the intersection of his land for vaccinated travelers.
“I plan to suspend my baby to Thanksgiving America,” Robinson said, who lives in St.
Thomas, Ontario.
“If everything goes smoothly on the border I will plan to take him down as much as I can.
Crazy think he has another side of the family he has never met.” According to the control centers and prevention of disease, the US will receive tourists who have been fully vaccinated with one vaccine approved for emergency use by the World Health Organization, not only those used in the US.
That means that astrazeneca vaccines, widely used in Canada, will be accepted.
For air travelers, airlines are required to verify vaccine records and match it with IDs, and if not, they can face a fine of up to almost $ 35,000 per violation.
Airlines will also gather information about passengers for contact search efforts.
There will be a traveler’s CDC worker traveler for compliance in the US.
On the Land border, customs and border protection agents will check the evidence of vaccines.
The movement came when the US had seen the prospect of Covid-19 increased dramatically in recent weeks since the summer delta surge which encouraged hospitals to a ravine in many locations.
US raised a ban on a pandemic trip, opening the door for visitors
