All passengers traveling to the United States must comply with them from January 26.
The US Embassy in El Salvador has announced some of the requirements that passengers traveling in the country must consider from Tuesday as a precautionary measure due to the pandemic.
“As of January 26, all airline passengers to the United States who are at least two years old must provide a COVID-19 negative viral test (PCR- o serological tests o de antibodies) taken in the three calendar days prior to the trip, “the US embassy in El Salvador reported.
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He also reported that travelers recovering from coronavirus must deliver documentation from a care provider. doctor authorized to recover from COVID-19 in the 90 days prior to the trip.
According to information from ABC News, the result of the test analyzed by a laboratory can be presented either on paper or electronically.
Joe Biden tightened the rules on the use of masks last week and ordered quarantine for people flying in the country, which on Monday exceeded 25 million cases and recorded 420,965 deaths, but did not specify the time of quarantine and whether it will be the same for travelers and American citizens.
The latest update – dated January 25 – on the requirements, published on the embassy portal, does not detail that passengers must be subject to a mandatory quarantine upon entry into the United States.
To the immunity of the herd
Joe Biden predicted on Monday that the United States would achieve collective immunity to covid-19 by summer, the spread of which has led several countries to tighten entry restrictions on their territories, despite the vaccination campaign.
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The president assured that the United States, the country most affected by the pandemic with more than 420,000 deaths, will be “on the road to herd immunity” for the summer and that the vaccine can be given en masse in the spring.
“It will be a logistical challenge that will overcome anything we have tried in this country,” he told reporters about mass vaccination.
Meanwhile, the United States has joined France, Israel and Sweden in limiting certain arrivals, responding to concerns about newer and more contagious strains of the virus originating in the United Kingdom, South Africa and Brazil.
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New Zealand announced on Monday that it had detected a case of the South African variant, and the United States reported its first case of the Brazilian strain.
In this context, the American biotechnology company Moderna wanted to send a message full of hope, ensuring that its vaccine is effective against British and South African variants of coronavirus.
Experts are confident that the vaccine “should protect against these newly detected variants,” Moderna said after a lab test, specifying that they will try to develop an additional dose to increase protection against these strains.