Just as I had announced, The United States will ease restrictions and accept travelers as long as they verify that they have their vaccination schedule against COVID-19 complete.
A spokesperson for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) told the agency Reuters which will be the biologics authorized by the US regulators or the World Health Organization (WHO) those that will be accepted in US territory.
“Six vaccines authorized or approved by the FDA or listed for emergency use by WHO will meet the criteria for travel to the US”
CDC spokesperson.
What are the WHO-approved vaccines that the US will accept?
According to the announcement made by the American authorities, travelers who have any of the following COVID-19 vaccines, authorized by WHO, may enter the country:
- Modern
- Pfizer
- Johnson & Johnson
- AstraZeneca
- Sinovac
- Sinopharm
Late on Friday, the CDC they said that “earlier this week, to help them prepare their systems, we informed the airlines “ of the vaccines that would be accepted and added that “CDC will release additional guidance and information as travel requirements are finalized.”
The United States eases restrictions
On September 20, the White House announced that USA in November I would raise the restrictions from trip for the air travelers from 33 countries, including China, India, Brazil, and most of Europe, which are fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
However, at that time he did not specify what vaccinations would be accepted, so some countries had pressured the Joe Biden administration to accept the vaccines approved by the WHO, since vaccines authorized by the US Food and Drug Administration they are not widely used in all countries.
The new requirements of the COVID-19 vaccine will now apply to almost all foreign nationals flying to the USA.
The CDC has yet to finalize and publish new rules of contract tracking for international visitors, which sent to the White House for review on September 15.
In addition, CDC must also detail the rules for exceptions, which include the kids that still are not eligible for vaccinationsas well as visitors from countries where vaccines are not widely available.
EU ‘beat’ the Sputnik V vaccine
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of United States has said that only foreigners vaccinated with the doses endorsed by that institute and by the World Health Organization (WHO) they will be able to enter the country. Neither of those two bodies has given the brand emergency use Sputnik V, from Russia.
This means that, because the FDA did not list Sputnik V vaccine for emergency use against coronavirus (COVID-19), foreigners immunized with that brand could not enter the country.
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