All passengers traveling to the United States must meet them by January 26th.
The U.S. Embassy in El Salvador announced some of the requirements to be taken into account from this Tuesday, passengers traveling to that country as a precautionary measure for the pandemic.
“As of January 26, all airline passengers in the United States, two years of age or older, must provide a negative COVID-19 viral test (PCR- o serological tests o de antibodies) taken within the three calendar days prior to the trip, “the US embassy in El Salvador reported.
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He also reported that passengers recovered from the coronavirus should hand over documentation from a care provider. authorized to have recovered from VOCID-19 in the 90 days prior to the trip.
According to information from ABC News, the result of the test analyzed by a laboratory, can be presented either on paper or electronically.
Joe Biden tightened the rules for wearing masks last week and ordered quarantine for people flying into the country, Which exceeded 25 million cases on Monday and recorded 420,965 deaths, but did not specify the time of the quarantine and whether it will be the same for travelers and American citizens.
The latest update – dated January 25 – on the requirements, posted on the embassy portal, does not detail that passengers must undergo mandatory quarantine upon entering the United States.
Towards collective immunity
Joe Biden predicted Monday that the United States will arrive by the summer of summer the collective immunity of covid-19, the spread is leading several countries to tighten restrictions on entry into their territories despite the campaign of vaccination.
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The president assured that the United States, the country most devastated by the pandemic with more than 420,000 deaths, will be “well on its way to herd immunity” for the boreal summer, and that in the spring it will be possible to massively administer the vaccine.
“It will be a logistical challenge that will exceed everything we have tried in this country,” he told reporters about mass vaccination.
But in the meantime, the United States joined France, Israel and Sweden in limiting certain arrivals, responding to concerns about new, more contagious strains of viruses originating in the UK, South Africa and Brazil.
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New Zealand announced it had detected a case this Monday of the South African variant, and the United States reported its first case of the Brazilian strain.
In this context, the American biotechnology company Moderna wanted to send a hopeful message by ensuring that its vaccine is effective against the British and South African variants of the coronavirus.
Experts are confident that the vaccine “should protect against these newly detected variants,” Moderna said after a lab test, noting that they will try to develop an additional dose to increase protection against these strains.