Transport secretary Pete Buttigieg
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“What I can tell you is that it will be guided by data, by science, by medicine and by the input of the people who will actually have to do this,” he said. “But here’s the thing: the safer we can make air travel in terms of both perception and reality, the more people will be ready to take to the skies again.”
Buttigieg’s comments about a possible test madnate come after the CDC required travelers on international flights to the US to test negative for the virus that infected more than 27 million and killed more than 464,000 people in the US alone, said Johns Hopkins University. data.
The international flight test rules came when US officials expressed concern about the COVID-19 variants found in the UK and South Africa that are more contagious than the original species. Both variants have been found in multiple states in the US, with 690 cases of the British strain in 33 states and six cases of the South African strain in three states, according to CDC data.
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The transportation department announced on Monday that Buttigieg plans to go into quarantine after a member of his security officer tested positive for COVID-19 after meeting with the secretary earlier that morning. Buttigieg has since tested negative and has not shown any symptoms yet.