the United States will lift the vaccination requirement for foreign travelers

by time news

2023-05-01 23:52:57

The United States will lift the obligation to be vaccinated against Covid-19 on the evening of May 11, which concerns federal civil servants and international travelers arriving by air, announced on Monday 1is May, the White House. This lifting of the vaccination obligation corresponds to the end of the state of health emergency declared by Washington in January 2020.

“Covid-19 deaths down 95%”

The United States is officially the country that has paid the heaviest price for the pandemic, with more than a million deaths. Since January 2021, that is to say since the inauguration of President Joe Biden, “Covid-19 deaths have fallen by 95% and hospitalizations by almost 91%”explains the American executive in a press release.

He adds that by the time 270 million Americans have received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, “We are no longer in the same phase of responding to the pandemic as when these obligations were put in place. »

The World with AFP

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