The United States is considering a plan to require all foreign visitors to be vaccinated against the coronavirus, according to a White House official.
The potential move comes amid an increase in COVID-19 cases caused by the highly infectious Delta variant; Officials expect infections to continue to rise among the unvaccinated population in the coming weeks.
The interagency working groups have been developing a plan for international travel, which would be in place once the borders have been reopened. The plan would include a phased approach that will mean, with a few exceptions, that foreigners traveling to the United States would have to be fully vaccinated, the official added.
The timing of the release is still unclear.
The case of Europe
In July, the European Union (EU) presented a COVID-19 digital certificate, which allows residents of the block and travelers from other regions to move through the 27 countries as long as they are vaccinated with one of the four drugs authorized by the Agency European Medicines Agency, have a recent negative test or present evidence that they recently recovered from the virus.
The EU officially accepts vaccines from Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson y AstraZeneca. It does not include the version of AstraZeneca made in India or many others used in developing countries, such as those produced in China and Russia.
However, each EU country is free to apply its own rules for travelers from inside and outside the bloc, and their rules can vary widely.
The World Health Organization (WHO) urged countries to recognize all the vaccines it has licensed, including two made by China. Up to now, this agency has licensed the vaccines from Pfizer / BioNTech, AstraZeneca / Oxford, Janssen, Moderna, Sinopharm and the Sinovac vaccine.
With AP information
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