The negative test for COVID-19 is required even for US citizens and two-year-old children.
Travelers arriving in the United States by plane must submit a negative COVID-19 test conducted in the three days prior to their flight, starting January 26, according to the provisions of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC ).
The decision extends a standard for testing passed in December after the emergence of the British strain of the coronavirus that is far more contagious than the one that plagued the world for a year.
The CDC order states that all people, including civilians, must submit a negative COVID-19 test taken three days before the flight.
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“This order applies to all passengers 2 years of age or older traveling to the US by air, including nationals and legal residents of the United States. (…) All foreign passengers arriving in the US by airplane undergo a screening test no later than 3 days prior to the departure of their flight and provide proof of a negative test or documentation to demonstrate recovery from COVID-19 to the airline before boarding the aircraft, ” said the institution’s official website.
The CDC also recommends that travelers retest within three to five days of arrival and have been incarcerated for at least a week.
The exams must cover “current infection” and passengers must provide airlines with written evidence of their results prior to boarding.
In addition, the restrictions already set for people in high-contamination countries, such as European countries or Brazil, 14 days prior to travel, are still in place because “the CDC order does not replace presidential decrees.”
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“Submitting a negative COVID-19 detection test or documentation showing that you have recovered from COVID-19 to the airline before boarding does not exempt foreign nationals from the travel restrictions contained in the decrees. presidential. With specific exceptions, several presidential decrees suspend and restrict entry into the United States of those aliens, be they immigrants or non-immigrants, who have been physically present in one of the specific countries for a period of 14 days prior to their entry or tried to enter the United States, ”the page explains.
Another detail that stands out is that civilians traveling from one state to another or territories of the United States are excluded from the warrant: the warrant to provide documentation of a COVID-19 detection test or COVID recovery documentation. to consult. 19 does not control passengers flying from or in possession of a US state.
In the event that the traveler does not submit the COVID-19 detection test with a negative result or the recovery documentation, the airlines will not grant permission to board the aircraft.
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According to a Los Angeles immigration attorney known on his Tik Tok channel as Julio, the injunction also applies to passengers on offline flights and emphasizes that it includes all passengers up to two years old.
Other variants have also been reported in South Africa and Brazil. Japan said Tuesday it is in the process of isolating and analyzing a variant found in four passengers arriving from Brazil.
Epidemiologists warned that the newer and more contagious strains likely already exist in the United States, where more than 379,000 died from COVID-19.