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COVID-19: US plans vaccine mandate for visiting foreigners

Washington developing 'phased approach', no timeframe yet



Cars queue up in multiple lines as they wait to be inspected by US border patrol officers to enter from Mexico in Tijuana.
Image Credit: Reuters

Washington: The United States, which closed its borders to most foreign travellers as the coronavirus pandemic took hold, plans to allow fully vaccinated visitors to enter the country, a White House official said Wednesday.

Washington is developing “a phased approach that over time will mean, with limited exceptions, that foreign nationals travelling to the United States — from all countries — need to be fully vaccinated,” the official said, without specifying a timeframe.

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