The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is evaluating more stringent travel recommendations and regulations amid an attempt by health authorities to slow the entry of the omicron variant of COVID-19 To united states.
The agency is seeking measures such as reducing the testing window for travelers entering the country and adding quarantine requirements in certain cases, the director of the CDC, Rochelle Walensky, in a call with journalists.
It will also expand surveillance programs at four major airports to test passengers arriving on international flights for COVID.
“As we have done throughout the pandemic, CDC are evaluating how to make international travel as safe as possible”, It indicated in the call.
Last week, the country imposed travel restrictions that prohibit the arrival of foreign nationals who have been to one of eight southern African nations in the past 14 days. The Administration has not indicated how long these measures will be in force.
“Based on data and science, the medical team will make a recommendation on changes to the international travel policy“, said Jeff Zients, President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 Response Coordinator.
Walensky said that still “no evidence of omicron in the United States“, although Biden said Monday that it is “almost inevitable”The arrival of the variant.
“I think with all of our international travel policies that have helped keep Americans safe, as well as our really strong surveillance system“In the identification of genetic variants,”we have the detection mechanisms we need to be able to find it, if and when it happens”, dijo Walensky.
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