The Biden administration is forming expert working groups with Canada, Mexico, the European Union and the United Kingdom to determine how best to safely restart travel after 15 months of pandemic restrictions, a White House official said on Tuesday.
Another U.S. official said an announcement expected on Tuesday indicated the administration will not move quickly to lift orders that bar people from much of the world from entering the United States because of the time it will take for the groups to do their work.
They said "any decisions will be fully guided by the objective analysis and recommendations by public health and medical experts." The groups will be led by the White House COVID Response Team and the National Security Council and include the Centers for Disease Control and other agencies. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said the travel restrictions are subject to "an interagency conversation, and we are looking at the data in real time as to how we should move forward with that."
Airlines and others have pressed the administration to lift the restrictions on most non-U.S. citizens who have been in the United Kingdom, the 26 Schengen nations in Europe without border controls, Ireland, China, India, South Africa, Iran and Brazil. The United States also bars most non-essential travel at its land borders with Mexico and Canada.
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