The White House announced that a new air travel system will take effect Nov. 8, allowing entry for fully vaccinated foreign visitors. The system is set to launch nearly two years after the U.S. began imposing travel restrictions to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Starting Nov. 8, non-citizen, non-immigrant air travelers will need to show proof of full vaccination as well as a pre-departure negative coronavirus test taken within three days of travel before they can board a plane to the U.S.
Acceptable forms of proof of vaccination include:
Digital or paper verifiable record, such as a vaccination certificate or a digital pass with a QR code.
Nonverifiable paper record, such as a printout of a COVID-19 vaccination record or COVID-19 vaccination certificate.
Nonverifiable digital record, such as a digital photo of a vaccination card or record, downloaded vaccine record, downloaded vaccination certificate or a mobile phone application without a QR code.
You are considered fully vaccinated:
2 weeks (14 days) after your dose of an accepted single-dose vaccine
2 weeks (14 days) after your second dose of an accepted 2-dose series
2 weeks (14 days) after you received the full series of an accepted COVID-19 vaccine (not placebo) in a clinical trial
2 weeks (14 days) after you received the full series of a Novavax (or Covavax) COVID-19 vaccine (not placebo) in a phase 3 clinical trial
2 weeks (14 days) after you received 2 doses of any “mix-and-match” combination of accepted COVID-19 vaccines administered at least 17 days apart*
If you don’t meet these requirements, you are NOT fully vaccinated. Keep taking all precautions until you are fully vaccinated.
The U.S. will accept nucleic acid amplification tests, including PCR tests, and antigen tests. The rules will go into effect for passengers on planes leaving for the U.S. at or after 12:01 a.m. ET on Nov. 8.
Airlines will collect basic personal contact information from all U.S.-bound travelers for contact tracing. Airlines are required to keep the information on hand so the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention can reach out to travelers who may have been infected or exposed to COVID-19.
Masking will be required, but there will be no quarantine mandate for vaccinated travelers or unvaccinated children.
The change will make entering the U.S. possible for travelers from countries now listed on the U.S. travel ban, which prohibits entry for travelers who have been in any of the regions within the past 14 days. The travel ban took effect in early 2020 and includes:
China
Iran
United Kingdom
Republic of Ireland
Brazil
South Africa
India
The European Schengen area (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Monaco, San Marino and Vatican City)
Currently, the U.S. asks international air passengers only to get tested within three days of their flight to the U.S. and show either the negative test result or proof of recovery from COVID-19 before boarding.
Vaccines with WHO approval for emergency use include:
Johnson & Johnson
Moderna
Pfizer-BioNTech
Oxford-AstraZeneca/Covishield
Sinopharm
Sinovac
Covaxin
Coercion through segregation at its best. Moshiach now!!
You won’t need proof of anything and that’s just fine
It’s not all politics.
Hashem is allowing people to choose to follow fear or faith in Him.
Preperation for Moshiach will mean many things to different people.
While we churn out news there are people silently being heros. Giving Hashem tremendous naches in endless ways which nobody else notices.
“Think good and it will be good.” Hashem is creative enough…He has the plan. We, who believe in Him have no worries except; more Torah learning. More chessed. Better middos…
So much to do in so little time. That’s where our energy needs to go between out enjoyable chats ..