America opens its borders to fully vaccinated foreigners

After 20 months of travel restrictions the United States US is reopening its land and air borders to foreign visitors fully vaccinated against Covid19 from Monday The US is flinging its doors wide open to vaccinated international travellers welcoming many visitors whorsquove been shut out of the country for 20 months reported CNN The US is largely wide open although there are some state and local restrictions that still apply For example there are mask mandates in Hawaii Illinois New Mexico Nevada Oregon and Washington Washington DC and Puerto Rico also require masks in indoor spacesPeople wear facemasks upon entry into the US at the San Ysidro Land Port of Entry in San Ysidro California on November 7 a day before travel restrictions are lifted at the USMexico borderIn some cities including New York and San Francisco there are vaccine requirements for indoor public spaces including restaurants reported CNN Hawaii which had some of the strictest entry requirements in the US will now align with the new federal rules for international air travel Although capacity restrictions in the state are easing there are still some limits in place Getting vaccinated is the key requirement for the vast majority of international travellers hoping to enter the United States reported CNN Children under 18 are exempt from the vaccination requirement The CDC has the full slate of air travel requirements on its websiteTravellers must meet CDC criteria for being ldquofully vaccinatedrdquo Paper and digital documentation are acceptable Airlines are responsible for gathering and verifying this information from air travellers Air travellers also need a negative Covid19 test Testing is required of all fully vaccinated air travellers aged two and up regardless of nationality Passengers are required to test negative for Covid19 within three days of their flightrsquos departure for the United States Unvaccinated Americans and a very limited number of unvaccinated international travellers exempted from the vaccination requirement must test within one day of departing for the USCars queue up to cross the border at San Ysidro crossing port on the MexicoUS border in Tijuana Baja California state Mexico PicAFPBrsquodesh to administer 120 mn doses by JanBangladesh has so far administered 70 million Covid19 vaccine doses and the figure would top 120 million by January next year if the current trend continues Health Minister Zahid Maleque said Bangladesh has purchased a total of 210 million doses of the vaccines and at the moment there is no shortage of supply Xinhua news agency reported citing the minister as sayingGermanyrsquos Covid rate hits high levelGermanyrsquos Coronavirus infection rate climbed to its highest recorded level yet on Monday as the pandemic gathers pace The national disease control centre the Robert Koch Institute said the country has seen 2011 new cases per 100000 residents over the past seven daysAfricarsquos Covid cases cross 852mn markThe number of confirmed Covid cases in Africa reached 8527394 on Monday the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Africa CDC has said The Africa CDC the specialised healthcare agency of the African Union added that the death toll from the pandemic across the continent stands at 219418Britain records over 30000 fresh casesAnother 30305 people in Britain have tested positive for Covid19 bringing the total number of cases in the country to 9301909 according to official figures The country also reported 62 Covidrelated deaths The total Covidrelated deaths in Britain now stands at 141805 These figures only include the deaths of people who died within 28 days of their first positive test83142No of new cases reported globally in the past 24 hours250049045Total no of cases worldwide5052494Total no of deaths worldwideThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever