U.S. set to end enhanced screening of some international travelers for COVID-19: sources

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The U.S. government is set to end enhanced screening of some international passengers for COVID-19 and drop requirements that travelers coming from the targeted countries arrive at 15 designated U.S. airports, according to U.S. and airline officials and a government document seen by Reuters.

FILE PHOTO: People walk around the terminal at the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, U.S., March 9, 2020. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/File Photo

The administration in February imposed enhanced screening requirements on travelers who had been in China, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Iran and the Schengen region of Europe, and barred most non-U.S. citizens who have been in those locations from coming to the United States. Those travelers, who numbered around 6,750 a day as of late August, undergo visual observations, temperature checks and complete traveler declarations. Anyone showing signs of illness or possible exposure is referred for public health assessments.Last month, Reuters reported that the Trump administration’s efforts to require airlines to collect contact tracing information from U.S.

 

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After all, it’s people coming IN to the USA that have to worry, the people who live here, are already in the most highly infected country in the world

WHY on earth ?

Really? That’s why Americans are still banned from Europe

Now do domestic flights

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