The negative test for COVID-19 will be required even for US citizens and two-year-olds.
Passengers arriving in the United States by air must present a negative COVID-19 test performed in the three days prior to the flight, beginning January 26, in accordance with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The decision extends a rule on testing adopted in December after the outbreak of the British strain of coronavirus, which is much more contagious than the one that has affected the world for a year.
The CDC stipulates that all persons, including citizens, must submit a negative COVID-19 test done three days before the flight.
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“This order applies to all passengers, 2 years of age or older, traveling to the United States by air, including citizens and legal residents of the United States. (…) All foreign passengers arriving in the United States by air shall be screened at least 3 days before the departure of their flight and shall provide evidence of a negative test or a document to demonstrate their recovery from COVID-19 at the airline before boarding the plane “, says the official website of the institution.
The CDC also recommends that travelers be retested three to five days after arrival and closed for at least a week.
The tests must be for the “current infection” and passengers must provide the airlines with written evidence of their results before boarding.
In addition, the restrictions already in place for people who were in high-contagion countries, such as European countries or Brazil 14 days before the trip, are still in place because “the CDC order does not replace presidential decrees”.
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“Submission of a negative COVID-19 detection test or a document showing your recovery from COVID-19 to the airline before boarding the aircraft does not relieve foreign nationals of the travel restrictions included in the decrees. presidential. With specific exceptions, several presidential decrees suspend and restrict the entry into the United States of foreign nationals, whether immigrants or nonimmigrants, who have been physically present in any of the specific countries for a period of 14 days prior to entering or attempting to enter. in the United States, ”the page explains.
Another noteworthy detail is that citizens traveling from one state to another or the territories of the United States are excluded from the order: The order to present the documentation of a COVID-19 detection test or a COVID recovery documentation. 19 does not apply to passengers flying from American territory or possession to an American state.
If the passenger does not present the COVID-19 test with a negative result or the recovery documentation, the airlines will not authorize boarding.
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According to an immigrant lawyer from Los Angeles, known on his channel Tik Tok as Julio, the order also applies to passengers with offline flights and emphasizes that it includes all passengers up to two years old.
Other variants have been reported in South Africa and Brazil. Japan said on Tuesday it was working to isolate and analyze a variant found in four passengers arriving from Brazil.
Epidemiologists have warned that newer and more contagious strains are probably already in the United States, where more than 379,000 have died from COVID-19.