“US ends vaccine card requirement as Joe Biden declares end to Covid-19 public health emergency”

As of May 11, the United States will no longer require the presentation of the coronavirus vaccine card to enter the country. It happens after the president Joe Biden decree the end of the public health emergency due to Covid-19.

“Today we are announcing that the administration will end the covid-19 vaccine requirement for federal employees, contractors, and air travelers by the end of May 11, the same day the covid-19 public health emergency ends. “, the White House announced in a statement.

The coronavirus gave way in late 2019 to a pandemic that killed 6.9 million people worldwide, with nearly 677 million confirmed cases, according to Johns Hopkins University of Medicine, which stopped compiling such data only last month. past.

The US government is still studying the origins of the pandemic, and intelligence agencies point to the Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China, or a nearby market as potential sources of the outbreak.