CDC Ending COVID-19 Testing Requirement to Enter Country

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ToTBellHop

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US will end Covid-19 testing requirement for air travelers entering the country | CNN Politics

The Biden administration is expected to announce Friday that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will lift its requirement for travelers to test negative for Covid-19 before entering the US, according to a senior administration official and a US Centers For Disease Control and...
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Big news for anyone flying to the USA for a cruise or those going on a Med or Alaska cruise this summer. We will see if this starts to impact the testing requirement to actually board the ship, too. Big step, regardless!
 
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CLIA (which represents many cruise lines, including DCL) has asked the CDC to end cruise testing in light of the removal of this requirement for international flights into the USA. Further, Viking Cruises has now removed the testing requirement for all of its ocean and river cruises outside of the USA and Canada. Together, this suggests that cruise lines want to end testing. I wonder how this will impact the remainder of the European cruise season; I could see other cruises removing testing requirements there as testing is becoming harder to find in many European ports. As for cruises from the USA, I don't honestly expect the CDC to do anything soon. Cruises are hardly a priority and insofar as the removal of testing before flights was an economic decision, the government obviously cares more about this as it benefits American airlines flying guests to America. Cruise lines are international businesses that transport guests away from America.
 

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