US: Covid Testing Rules For Travelers From China Officially Rescinded

• Travelers departing from Asia longer have to submit to a pre-flight test to board a flight to the U.S.

• The CDC announced this in its Friday news release

• The CDC said it now has more confidence things have gotten better in China

Eko Hot Blog reports that People who want to fly from China to the U.S. will have an easier time of it starting Friday.

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Special Covid testing rules for people traveling from China and its administrative areas, which were put in place on January 5 during a big outbreak of cases in China, were officially rescinded at 3 p.m. ET Friday, according to a news release from the US Centers of Disease Control and Prevention.

The CDC order was expected to be dropped as soon as Friday.

What this means is travelers departing from China, Hong Kong, Macau and a few designated airports located elsewhere will no longer have to submit to a pre-flight test to get a negative result or show documentation of recent recovery from Covid-19 to board a flight to the U.S.

The CDC said in its Friday news release that the order was put in place because of “concerns that Covid-19 cases were surging in the [People’s Republic of China].

“At that time, mitigation measures were largely not known to be in use in the PRC, and there were significant gaps in data and information on cases, hospitalizations and deaths.”

The CDC said it now has more confidence things have gotten better in China.

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“Current available epidemiologic data through global data sets and modeling results indicate that the Covid-19 surge experienced by the PRC has returned to a baseline measure,” the release said.

Source: CNN

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