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(CNN) — The administration of Donald Trump intends to end screening for coronavirus of passengers arriving at U.S from abroad, according to three officials familiar with the plans.
The United States began conducting improved screening of passengers arriving from Wuhan, China, where there had been an outbreak of the virus, at selected airports in January. During the following months, additional airports began the process of screening passengers from high-risk countries. For a brief period, projections resulted in long lines and overcrowded conditions at US airports.
Management now appears ready to finalize those assessments, a move that reported Yahoo News. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection deferred the comments to the Department of Homeland Security, which declined to comment.
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A Transportation Security Administration (TSA) official told CNN that a draft public affairs guidance memorandum sets out the justification for ending controls at airports: out of the 675,000 passengers Tested at 15 airports, fewer than 15 had been identified with COVID-19.
Airlines for America, an aviation industry group, agreed with the decision to suspend screening and said in a statement: “We continue to support the spending of scarce screening resources where they can best be used and no longer We think it makes sense to continue screening at these 15 airports given the extremely low number of passengers identified (by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) as potentially having health problems. “
The effectiveness of evaluations has been difficult to measure. Data provided to the House of Representatives Oversight Commission earlier this year revealed that few passengers were detained in initial assessments of international flights since the first hot spots of the coronavirus outside of China.
The evaluations included questions about medical history, current condition, and contact information for local health authorities.
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