NEW YORK (Dagbladet): The United States plans to ease the strict restrictions for travelers from Europe who are fully vaccinated. The changes will probably take effect from November, reports The Financial Times and CNN.
The change will probably also include travelers from Norway. Travelers to the United States will need to document that they are fully vaccinated. In addition, they must take a covid test within 72 hours before departure. The Biden administration plans to announce the changes later Monday, according to CNN and the Financial Times.
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Repairs the relationship
CNN describes the change as the first step in repairing US-European relations. Recently, France and the United States have been at loggerheads after the United States entered into an agreement with Australia to build nuclear-powered submarines at the expense of conventional submarines from France. European leaders have also been upset that the Biden administration has not consulted them about Afghanistan.
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The change is also very good news for the tourism and tourism industry, which has fought hard to reopen to international tourism.
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I New York
In the last 18 months, only US citizens, people with green cards or people who have been granted exemptions for reasons of national interest have been able to travel from Europe to the United States. Now probably popular tourist destinations such as New York can expect a large influx of tourists.
Prime Minister Erna Solberg is currently in New York at the UN summit. Dagbladet asked her on Sunday about the entry ban before the news of relief came. Then she expressed that it can probably take a while before it is revoked.
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– I understand that they have the same dilemma as we have had: Do you dare to open, and how should you then have an entry system that works to check that people have vaccines. Through the EU, we have created this common system that makes it quite simple. But the United States does not have such a convertible system. They also have to make some country lists. We hope that they will eventually say that countries that have a low degree of infection and a high degree of vaccination are unlikely to bring infection, Solberg said.
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