The United States will start Re-imposing mandatory COVID-19 tests for everyone air Travelers from China, authorities announced Wednesday.
From January 5 “all air Passengers aged two years and over arriving from China will be required to get test No more Two days before they left China, Hong Kong and Macao and show negative test result For airlines upon departure “Federal health official He said.
The recent rapid increase in Covid-19 transmission in China is increasing the potential for new emergent variables official to reporters in Telephone briefing.
However, the official He said, Beijing provided only limited data on the variants in circulation in China global Databases, testing and reporting on new cases also shrank.
“Based on on This deficiency of available Data, it’s harder for we public health officials to determine new variants that are spreading in the United States” official He said.
“The United States is being proactive, deliberative steps to protect Americans public health, and be on Warning for The emergence of any possible variants of Covid-19″ official He said.
the new condition will fall into it place just After midnight US Eastern time on January 5, or 0500 GMT.
the test condition applies to air passengers regardless of Nationality and vaccination status includes people Traveling to the United States from China via Third countriesas well as those traveling through the United States to other countries countries.
